Australian physician Peter Grant induced selling anabolic steroids

Some physician abuse their position, prescribing drugs which don’t meet criteria of therapeutic needs of patients. Why does it happen? It is known that some medications are claimed 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 some countries. Those that do it may be punished. They may be enforced to pay a fine and/or go to prison. Of course, numerous individuals seek ways to get and apply these preparations without having legal troubles.
Anabolic steroids are often abused. A lot of sportspersons and bodybuilders apply these products not for therapeutic purposes but for performance-enhancing effects. If they live in countries where these preparations can’t be obtained legally without prescriptions, they find certain ways to mask their illicit purchase and administration. Sportspeople, bodybuilders and even ordinary people ask their health care providers to prescribe them these drugs, as if they had therapeutic needs to use them. So, some health care providers promote selling anabolic steroids to those that abuse them. Here is a case.
Peter Grant, an Australian physician, prescribed steroids to 14 patients during nine years. Medical state of these patients didn’t require administration of these medications. Thus, the doctor was accused of improper practicing medicine. For example, he prescribed to a patient taking such medications, as Halotestin, Sustanon, Andriol Testocaps, Deca Durabolin, Scitropin and Proviron. But there was no any medical basis to prescribe these drugs to this man. Furthermore, these medicines were recommended him during 9 years.
The health care provider Peter Grant acknowledged that several patients were competing. So, he prescribed them steroids. He also admitted to studying scientific information about anabolic steroids. He claimed that he knew how steroids acted. Thus, he supervised the patients who used anabolic steroids.
Taking these aspects in consideration, it is possible to affirm that the health care provider Peter Grant was better known by those who applied steroids for increase of performance than by those that had to be cured from certain health problems. Peter Grant affirmed that he knew that steroids were purchased by his patients just for personal intake.
When the physician appeared in the court, the judge claimed that the doctor promoted selling steroids. The judge noticed 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.