Improper medical practice linked with steroid prescriptions

Several physician abuse their position, prescribing medicines that don’t meet criteria of clinical needs of patients. Why does it happen? It is known that several medicines are claimed to be prescription preparations. It means that you can’t purchase them legally, if you don’t have any prescription from your treating doctor. Anabolic steroids belong to such medicines. It is illegal to purchase steroids without a prescription in several countries. Those that do it may be punished. They may be sentenced to imprisonment and/or fines. Undoubtedly, numerous persons seek ways to get and apply these products without having legal troubles.
Anabolic steroids are often abused. Numerous sportspersons and bodybuilders apply these products not for therapeutic purposes but for enhancement of performance. If they live in countries where these products can’t be bought legally without prescriptions, they find several ways to mask their illegal purchase and administration. Sportspersons, bodybuilders and even ordinary people ask their health care providers to prescribe them these drugs, as if they had therapeutic needs to take them. Thus, some health care providers induce selling anabolic steroids to those who abuse them. Here is a case.
Peter Grant, an Australian doctor, recommended steroids to 14 individuals during nine years. Medical state of these patients didn’t require administration of these drugs. Thus, the physician was accused of improper practicing medicine. For example, he recommended to a patient applying such preparations, as Halotestin, Sustanon, Andriol Testocaps, Deca Durabolin, Scitropin and Proviron. But there was no any medical basis to prescribe these medicines to this person. Moreover, these medications were recommended him during 9 years.
The physician Peter Grant acknowledged that some patients were competing. Thus, he prescribed them steroids. He also admitted to studying scientific information about anabolic steroids. He claimed that he knew how steroids acted. So, he supervised the patients who took anabolic steroids.
Taking these factors into account, it is possible to state that the doctor Peter Grant was better known by those who applied steroids for increase of performance than by those that had to be cured from certain diseases. Peter Grant affirmed that he knew that steroids were bought by his patients just for personal usage.
When the physician appeared in the court, the judge confirmed that the doctor promoted selling steroids. The judge added that Peter Grant had to be punished appropriately. Peter Grant was suspended from practicing medicine for one year. Moreover, the judge claimed that he would be disciplined during the next 2 years.