How are women affected by steroids?
About 55,000 women have used steroids in the past year. Among high school seniors, between a 1/2 and 2 percent of girls have reported using steroids at some time. Small amounts will have a profound effect on women. Use will shrink the breast tissue, cause male-pattern hair growth and baldness, deepening of the voice, clitoral enlargement, and cessation of the menses. Many of these effects are irreversible.
