Australian physician prescribed steroids to patients that were competing

Some physician abuse their position, prescribing medications that don’t correspond to medical needs of patients. Why does it happen? It is known that some medications are claimed to be prescription drugs. It means that you can’t get them legally, if you don’t have any prescription from your treating physician. Anabolic steroids belong to such preparations. It is illegal to purchase steroids without a prescription in some countries. Those that do it may be punished. They may be sentenced to imprisonment and/or fines. Of course, numerous individuals are looking for methods to get and take these medications without having legal troubles.
Anabolic steroids are widely abused. A lot of athletes and bodybuilders administer these drugs not for medical purposes but for increase of performance. If they live in countries where these drugs can’t be purchased legally without prescriptions, they find several ways to mask their illegal purchase and intake. Sportspersons, bodybuilders and even ordinary people ask their health care providers to prescribe them these medicines, as if they had clinical needs to use them. Thus, certain physicians induce selling anabolic steroids to those who abuse them. Here is a case.
Peter Grant, an Australian physician, recommended steroids to 14 patients during nine years. Medical state of these persons didn’t require intake of these medicines. Thus, the doctor was accused of inappropriate practicing medicine. For example, he recommended to a patient applying such products, as Halotestin, Sustanon, Andriol Testocaps, Deca Durabolin, Scitropin and Proviron. But there was no any medical basis to prescribe these drugs to this individual. Moreover, these drugs 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 reading scientific information about anabolic steroids. He claimed that he knew how steroids acted. Thus, he supervised the patients that administered anabolic steroids.
Taking these aspects in consideration, it is possible to affirm that the physician Peter Grant was better known by those that administered steroids for increase of performance than by those that had to be cured from certain health troubles. Peter Grant claimed that he knew that steroids were purchased by his patients only for personal use.
When the physician appeared in the court, the judge claimed that the doctor promoted selling steroids. The judge confirmed that Peter Grant had to be punished appropriately. Peter Grant was suspended from practicing medicine for a year. Furthermore, the judge stated that he would be disciplined during the next 2 years.