Australian doctor promoted using steroids by bodybuilders/athletes

Several physician abuse their position, prescribing medicines that don’t meet criteria of medical needs of patients. Why does it happen? It is known that some preparations are considered 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 drugs. It is illegal to purchase steroids without a prescription in some countries. Those that do it may be punished. They may be sentenced to prison and/or fine. Of course, many individuals are looking for ways to buy and use these medications without having legal troubles.
Anabolic steroids are widely abused. Many sportspersons and bodybuilders apply these products not for therapeutic needs but for enhancement of performance. If they live in countries where these preparations can’t be purchased legally without prescriptions, they find some ways to mask their illicit purchase and intake. Sportspersons, bodybuilders and even ordinary people ask their health care providers to prescribe them these drugs, as if they had therapeutic needs to apply them. Thus, certain doctors promote selling anabolic steroids to those that abuse them. Here is a case.
Peter Grant, an Australian health care provider, recommended steroids to 14 persons during 9 years. Medical state of these individuals didn’t require intake of these medications. Thus, the physician was accused of inappropriate practicing medicine. For example, he prescribed to a patient taking such preparations, as Halotestin, Sustanon, Andriol Testocaps, Deca Durabolin, Scitropin and Proviron. But there was no any medical basis to recommend these medicines to this individual. Furthermore, these medications were prescribed him during 9 years.
The health care provider Peter Grant acknowledged that several patients were competing. Thus, he prescribed them steroids. He also admitted to reading scientific information about anabolic steroids. He claimed that he knew how steroids worked. Thus, he supervised the patients who took anabolic steroids.
Taking these aspects in consideration, it is possible to state that the doctor Peter Grant was better known by those that took steroids for performance-enhancing effects than by those who had to be cured from some health troubles. Peter Grant claimed that he knew that steroids were purchased by his patients just for personal usage.
When the physician appeared in the court, the judge affirmed that the physician promoted selling steroids. The judge added that Peter Grant had to be punished properly. Peter Grant was suspended from practicing medicine for one year. Furthermore, the judge confirmed that he would be disciplined during the next 2 years.