Australian physician was charged with abuse of position

Some doctors abuse their position, recommending medications that don’t correspond to medical needs of patients. Why do they do it? It is known that some medicines are considered to be prescription medications. 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 drugs. 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. Undoubtedly, many people seek ways to buy and use these products without having legal troubles.
Anabolic steroids are widely abused. Many sportspersons and bodybuilders administer these drugs not for medical purposes but for performance-enhancing effects. If they live in countries where these products can’t be obtained legally without prescriptions, they find some ways to mask their illicit purchase and application. Athletes, bodybuilders and even ordinary people ask their doctors to prescribe them these medications, as if they had therapeutic needs to apply them. So, some doctors promote selling anabolic steroids to those that abuse them. Here is a case.
Peter Grant, an Australian doctor, prescribed steroids to 14 persons during 9 years. Medical state of these patients didn’t require usage of these medications. Thus, the health care provider was accused of improper practicing medicine. For example, he recommended to a patient using such preparations, as Halotestin, Sustanon, Andriol Testocaps, Deca Durabolin, Scitropin and Proviron. But there was no any medical basis to prescribe these drugs to this individual. Furthermore, these products were prescribed him during 9 years.
The doctor Peter Grant acknowledged that some patients were competing. Thus, he prescribed them steroids. He also admitted to studying scientific information about anabolic steroids. He confirmed that he knew how steroids worked. Thus, he supervised the patients who took anabolic steroids.
Taking these factors in consideration, it is possible to claim that the health care provider Peter Grant was better known by those that took steroids for performance-enhancing effects than by those who had to be cured from certain diseases. Peter Grant claimed that he knew that steroids were purchased by his patients only for personal application.
When the doctor appeared in the court, the judge affirmed that the doctor promoted selling steroids. The judge noticed that Peter Grant had to be punished properly. Peter Grant was suspended from practicing medicine for 12 months. Moreover, the judge stated that he would be disciplined during the next 2 years.