It may seem strange, but if you look into the history of anabolic steroids, you'll find that professional athletes in ancient Greece used them a lot. In those days, athletes used natural steroidal substances to increase androgenic and anabolic growth in the body.
As the history of anabolic steroids goes on, it turns out that German scientists accidentally found the drug in its modern pharmaceutical form in the early 1930s. But there was no immediate desire to find out what the drug could be used for.
After a break of almost 20 years, scientists started to pay attention to anabolic steroids again in the 1950s. In 1958, the FDA approved methandrostenolone, also known as Dianabol, for use in the US because it had shown promise in trials in other countries.
Even though anabolic steroids were used on and off from the 1960s to the 1980s, there were still doubts about whether or not they worked. In 1972, a study was done that showed there wasn't a big difference between those who got anabolic steroid injections and those who got a fake drug.
Later in 1996, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) decided to examine the effect of the drug by injecting testosterone enanthate in high doses intramuscularly at the rate of 600 mg/week for 10 weeks. The results showed that the people who took the test had more muscle mass and less fat mass than the people who took the placebo injections.
The US Congress also passed the Anabolic Steroid Control Act of 1990, which puts anabolic steroids in Schedule II of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA).
No one knows where the history of anabolic steroid will go in the future. As of January 20, 2005, the CSA has been changed again to make room for the Anabolic Steroid Control Act of 2004, which makes both anabolic steroids and prohormones controlled substances.
