Issues for DSM-V: Clarifying the Diagnostic Criteria for Anabolic-Androgenic Steroid Dependence / Gen Kanayama, Kirk, J. Brower, Ruth I. Wood, James I. Hudson, Harrison G. Pope, Jr.. - (American Journal of Psychiatry 166 (2009) 6 (June); 642-645)
- PMID: 19487399
- PMCID: PMC2696068
- DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2009.08111699
llicit anabolic-androgenic steroid (AAS) use represents a growing worldwide publichealth problem. Some AAS users consume only a few courses of these drugs in a lifetime, but others progress to a maladaptive pattern of almost continuous use, despite adverse medical, psychological, and social effects. In the last 20 years, accumulating animal and human studies have documented and characterized this syndrome of AAS dependence.
