• Please complete the skeletal muscle labeling quiz.
• Make sure you read the directions
• Make sure your name, section and date are at the top
• When you are finished you may turn the quiz in to the black bin
• There is a front and a back to this quiz!

What are Steroids?

• Content Objective: The students will be able to analyze an article on steroids in order to determine what steroids are , how they are used and what the consequences of steroid use are by answering questions in complete sentences on a worksheet .
• Language Objective: The students will use the critical reading skills of highlighting, underlining and/or taking notes while reading an article in order to provide evidence that supports their answers to key idea, structure and integration of knowledge questions on a worksheet .

• Talk with someone sitting near you abut these questions:
• 1. What are steroids?
• 2. How are steroids used?
• 3. What side effects do steroids have?
• 4. In your opinion, should athletes be able to take steroids (think professional, collegiate and high school)? Why do you feel this way?

• Read the 3 page article entitled “What are Steroids?” on your own.
• Highlight, underline and/or comment on important information that you read
• Answer the article questions in complete sentences
• Make sure to support each of your answers with evidence
(information) from the article.
• This assignment is worth 15 points. Point values are labeled next to each question.

Your Thoughts
Both Facts and
Your Opinions
Facts from Article
Your Thoughts

• Anabolic = Referring to muscle-building
• Androgenic = Increased male sexual characteristics
• What are anabolic steroids?
• A synthetic substance related to the male sex hormone, testosterone .
• Synthetic = Compounds formed through a chemical process

• Anabolic steroids were created in the 1930s as a medication for a disease that causes not enough testosterone to be produced.
• Testosterone is needed for normal growth development.
• It was also during the 1930s that scientists discovered that anabolic steroids facilitate the growth of skeletal muscle and that it began being used by body builders and professional athletes.

• Oral • Injection • Cream
• Steroid Creams are
Prescribed for: Poison ivy, eczema, dermatitis
• Oral Pill are
Prescribed for:
Anemia, Failure to
Grow, Certain Types of Breast Cancer,
Gain Weight due to certain illnesses
• Injections are
Prescribed For:
Reduce inflammation in joints, Osteoarthritis,
Tendonitis, Allergic
Reactions

• Improve athletic performance – Estimated to be less than 6% of athletes that use steroids
• Testing procedures are in place for collegiate, professional and Olympic athletes
• Increase Muscle Size /Reduce Body Fat – Typically used by people with body dysmorphia
• Pattern of Risk-Behavior – People who partake in other risky behaviors such as drinking and driving, other illicit drugs

1. Most commonly done through urine samples
• If the level of testosterone is found to be higher than what is considered
“normal,” than the person fails the test
2. Test the hair follicle
3. Blood Sample
-In the NFL, athletes are tested randomly 5 times per year at minimum
-Estimated that in the United States about 6 million adults use steroids every year.

• Doses taken by abusers can be 10 to 100 times higher than doses for medical purposes.

• Musculoskeletal System
• When taken during adolescence it can prematurely signal the bones to stop growing
• More frequent tendon ruptures
• Cardiovascular System
• Associated with cardiovascular disease = heart attacks and strokes
• Increase risk for blood clots to form in blood vessels

• Liver
• Tumors and cysts which can rupture causing internal bleeding
• Cancer
• Infection
• May use non-sterile needles
• HIV
• Hepatitis B and C
• Bacterial Infection

• Skin
• Acne
• Oily skin/hair
• Hormonal
• Infertility
• Breast Development
• Shrinking of Testicles
• Baldness
• Damages Male Reproductive
System

• Skin
• Acne
• Oily skin/hair
• Hormonal
• Excessive growth of body hair
• Scalp Hair Loss
• Masculinization
• Decrease in breast size and body fat
• Voice Deepens
• Damages Female Reproductive
System

• Delusions
• Rage/Aggression
• More likely to commit aggressive acts such as physical fighting, armed robbery, theft, vandalism, or burglary
• Termed “ Roid Rage ”

• How much is that body in the window episode
• Scene 1 Ten Minutes
• Scene 3 Ten Minutes

• Debate Question: It has been discovered that many professional athletes take steroids. Do you think athletes should have consequences for taking steroids? Do you have a different view if they are a high school, college or professional athletes?
• Homework: Find and write down 10 facts that support your side of the debate. Identify the source that your facts came from (Example: drugabuse.gov)
• These facts will be used to support your side during our in class debate next class
• Homework is worth 10 points
• **Due Dates:
• BE = 12/1 CF = 12/2 AD = 12/3