Anabolic-androgenic steroids: User characteristics, motivations, and deterrents

Psychology of Addictive Behaviors

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 232-242

  Peters, Richard ^a   Copeland, Jan ^a   Dillon, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANABOLIC AGENT; ANDROGEN; ILLICIT DRUG; STEROID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BODY BUILDING; BODY IMAGE; DEMOGRAPHY; DRUG ABUSE; EXPECTATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTIVATION; SELF CONCEPT; TRAINING;

EID: 0032875430     PISSN: 0893164X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0893-164X.13.3.232     Document Type: Article

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