Iceland radically cut teenage drug use

Re:Iceland radically cut teenage drug use by samatman on Saturday March 14, 2020 @06:59PM (#22579418)

I find it... interesting.. that when cis women take steroids, that's birth control or a treatment for menopause, when trans people of both genders take it, it's a necessary part of gender affirmation treatment, but when cis men take them, it's abuse and illegal.

It's not surprising that there are bad outcomes without medical guidance and best practices. I, for one, fully intend to start supplementing male hormones the day I turn 50.

I don't think the stigma surrounding this is helping anyone.

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Re:Iceland radically cut teenage drug use by gameswithgo on Saturday March 14, 2020 @08:19PM (#22579875)

that some people need to take certain kinds of steroids to be healthy doesn't mean you don't get to talk about people taking 100x->1000x the normal dose of anabolic steroids to get huge muscles being a bad idea.

if you can't separate the stigma of that kind of abuse from the use of normal human doses of different compounds then maybe earth is too complex a place for you to live.

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Re:Iceland radically cut teenage drug use by econcon on Saturday March 14, 2020 @10:39PM (#22580770)

I've never heard anyone taking 100x, testosterone replacement is 100mg/week and guys in gym take anywhere from 150-600mg/week.

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Re:Iceland radically cut teenage drug use by samatman on Saturday March 14, 2020 @08:43PM (#22580032)

Thank you for the clear demonstration of the stigma I was referring to.

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