Australian doctor was abusing his position during 9 years

Certain physician abuse their position, prescribing products that don’t meet criteria of clinical needs of patients. Why do they do it? It is known that several preparations are considered to be prescription medications. 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 buy steroids without a prescription in certain countries. Those that do it may be punished. They may be enforced to pay a fine and/or go to prison. Of course, many persons are looking for methods to purchase and take these medications without having legal troubles.
Anabolic steroids are widely abused. Numerous sportspersons and bodybuilders apply these medicines not for clinical purposes but for performance-enhancing effects. If they live in countries where these products can’t be bought legally without prescriptions, they find some ways to mask their illicit purchase and administration. Athletes, bodybuilders and even ordinary people ask their health care providers to prescribe them these medications, as if they had therapeutic needs to take them. So, some health care providers promote selling anabolic steroids to those who abuse them. Here is a case.
Peter Grant, an Australian doctor, recommended steroids to 14 individuals during nine years. Medical state of these persons didn’t require administration of these medicines. Thus, the health care provider was accused of inappropriate practicing medicine. For example, he prescribed to a patient administering such medications, as Halotestin, Sustanon, Andriol Testocaps, Deca Durabolin, Scitropin and Proviron. But there was no any medical basis to recommend these medicines to this man. Moreover, these medicines were recommended him during nine years.
The physician Peter Grant acknowledged that certain patients were competing. So, he prescribed them steroids. He also admitted to learning scientific literature about anabolic steroids. He affirmed that he knew how steroids acted. Thus, he supervised the patients who applied anabolic steroids.
Taking these factors into account, it is possible to affirm that the health care provider Peter Grant was better known by those who administered steroids for increase of performance than by those who had to be cured from certain diseases. Peter Grant affirmed that he knew that steroids were bought by his patients just for personal use.
When the physician appeared in the court, the judge affirmed that the doctor induced selling steroids. The judge confirmed that Peter Grant had to be punished properly. Peter Grant was suspended from practicing medicine for a year. Furthermore, the judge confirmed that he would be disciplined during the next 2 years.