Anabolic steroids can easily result in anti-social behavior

There can be a possible link between anabolic steroids and anti-social behavior as per researchers from Sweden.

Anabolic steroids are drugs related with male sex hormones that are used in oral as well as injectable forms for building muscles and developing lean body appearance. However, long-term use or abuse of steroids can result in serious health complications including liver cancer and kidney disease.

From News-Medical.Net:

Apparently non-prescription steroid use has been linked previously to a number of psychiatric conditions and changes in behaviour and there have been reports of groups such as bodybuilders using anabolic androgenic steroids where hypomania or manic episodes, depression or suicide, psychotic episodes and increased aggressiveness and hostility have been experienced.

Dr. Fia Klötz of Uppsala University in Sweden, and colleagues studied the associations between criminality and steroid use in 1,440 Swedish residents tested for the drugs between 1995 and 2001.

They found that those who tested positive for steroid use were about twice as likely to have been convicted of a weapons offence and one and a half times as likely to have been convicted of fraud.

It was remarked that the use of steroids leads to anti-social behavior due to steroids' effects on mood swings, impulsiveness, depression, paranoid jealousy, extreme irritability, delusions and impaired judgment.