Who is sanctioned for breaking steroid laws?

The laws which criminalize usage of anabolic steroids have appeared not without any reason. They turned out to be responses to widespread intake of steroids in competitive sports. Anti-Doping Agencies thought that prohibition of steroids would keep professional sportspersons far from intake of illegal medicines. But criminalization of steroids influenced on administration of steroids by competitive athletes insignificantly.
The steroid laws commonly do not prosecute sportspeople who administrate illegal products. On the contrary, non-competitive sportspeople and recreational bodybuilders are usually targets of the steroid laws. They suffer due to results of violation of these laws.
This is not only one’s point of view. This is reality. Let think: who is sentenced to prison because of selling steroids? For example, Ashley Dewayne Rivers of Alabama was sentenced to 5 months in jail because he had sold about $2000 worth of steroids to a health care provider. In fact, this person was not the target of a steroid investigation. He only turned out to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. The estranged wife of this health care provider talked to federal investigators that her husband was implicated in operations of black steroid market. Thus, the affirmation of this woman caused the situation, when the physician was investigated.
In fact, Rivers was a supplier of steroids for short time. He provided these medicines to his friends of his gym. James Robinson, the defense attorney for Ashley Rivers, noticed that his client had understood his guilty completely and taken the whole responsibility for his illegal operations.  The attorney stated that Rivers was a good person. However he broke the steroid laws, he recognized the risks and admitted to his guilty.
James Robinson asked the judge to sentence his client just to probation.  Rivers cared about his physically impaired wife, 2 children that were adopted by him  and 3 children of his disabled brother. Furthermore, this person gave about 40, 000 dollars for persons that lost their homes because of tornadoes. It would be better, if he were sentenced to probation. He would continue his work for his family and other people.
But Christopher Brinson, the Assistant U. S. Attorney, rejected the request of the defense attorney for River. He stated that this man committed a serious crime and he should serve time in prison. However the judge was inclined to agree with the request of the defense attorney  at the beginning, finally he decided to agree with the Assistant U.S. Attorney and sentenced Ashley Rivers to 5 months in jail.
You can realize that steroid laws have just a slight influence on professional sportspersons.