Australian doctor promoted selling steroids

Several health care providers abuse their position, recommending products which don’t correspond to medical needs of patients. Why do they do it? It is known that certain drugs are considered to be prescription medications. It means that you can’t obtain 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 several countries. Those that do it may be punished. They may be sentenced to prison and/or fine. Undoubtedly, a lot of individuals are looking for ways to buy and administer these drugs without having legal problems.
Anabolic steroids are frequently abused. Numerous sportspersons and bodybuilders take these drugs not for clinical needs but for increase of performance. If they live in countries where these medicines can’t be obtained 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 preparations, as if they had medical needs to administer them. Thus, some physicians promote selling anabolic steroids to those that abuse them. Here is a situation.
Peter Grant, an Australian health care provider, prescribed steroids to 14 patients during nine years. Medical state of these persons didn’t require application of these preparations. So, the health care provider was accused of improper practicing medicine. For example, he recommended to a patient administering such products, as Halotestin, Sustanon, Andriol Testocaps, Deca Durabolin, Scitropin and Proviron. But there was no any medical basis to recommend these medicines to this individual. Moreover, these medicines were recommended him during 9 years.
The doctor Peter Grant acknowledged that certain patients were competing. So, he prescribed them steroids. He also admitted to learning scientific information about anabolic steroids. He claimed that he knew how steroids worked. So, he supervised the patients that applied anabolic steroids.
Taking these aspects into account, it is possible to affirm that the health care provider Peter Grant was better known by those that applied steroids for performance-enhancing effects than by those who had to be cured from some diseases. Peter Grant claimed that he knew that steroids were bought by his patients only for personal intake.
When the doctor appeared in the court, the judge affirmed that the doctor induced selling steroids. The judge claimed that Peter Grant had to be punished appropriately. Peter Grant was suspended from practicing medicine for 12 months. Moreover, the judge stated that he would be disciplined during the next 2 years.