Hormones 2016

Testosterone
Overdose
The acute intramuscular toxicity of Sustanon 100 or 250 is very low.
Priapism in men is a symptom of chronic overdose. If this occurs, Sustanon
treatment should be interrupted and, after disappearance of the symptom,
be resumed at a lower dose.
Andropatch = This is not likely due to the mode of administration.
Serum testosterone has a half-life of 70 minutes and therefore falls rapidly
once the Andropatch 2.5mg or 5mg Systems are removed. Only one case of
acute testosterone overdose following an injection has been reported in the
literature. This was a case of a cerebrovascular accident in a patient with a
high plasma testosterone concentration of 114 ng/ml (395 nmol/l). It would
be most unlikely that such plasma testosterone concentrations be achieved
using the transdermal route (emc, 2016).
Note
In the United States, the possession and distribution of anabolic steroids,
such as testosterone, is a felony offense unless prescribed by a physician
for medical use. The Steroid Control Act of 1990 made the use of
anabolic steroids for the purpose of performance enhancement illegal. This
legislation would be enhanced and strengthened by the Steroid Control Act
of 2004 and again in 2014 under the Designer Steroid Control Act of 2014.
Failure to abide by the guidelines enacted by the aforementioned legislation
can lead to severe punishments including fines and prison sentences. Such
punishments can range from charges of simple possession, to distribution
and the intent to distribute.
As the federal government’s war on steroids has increasingly gained fire,
the enforcement of the legislation has followed suit with many otherwise
law-abiding citizens finding themselves in the presence of the courts in
disastrous ways. U.S. federal law classifies anabolic androgenic steroids,
and testosterone, as Schedule III controlled substances. Schedule III
classification puts anabolic steroids in the same category as barbiturates and
LSD precursors.
In the U.S. there are five classes of scheduled drugs and they are as follows:
Schedule I - Drugs with no viable medical purpose and that have a high
rate of both dependency and abuse that can in turn lead to severe
physical damage.
Schedule II - Drugs that while possessing a viable medical purpose have
a high potential for abuse and dependency and can in turn lead to
severe physical damage.
Schedule III - Drugs that possess a viable medical purpose but do carry
with them the risk of dependency and physical damage but to a lesser
extent than compared to Schedule II drugs.
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