Health officials should punish pharmaceutical companies for illegal actions harshly

A lot of drug manufacturers violate laws. But only some of them are sanctioned properly. A lot of compounding pharmacies avoid serious sanctions successfully. But only when serious scandals result from illicit actions of pharmaceutical companies, they are sentenced to appropriate penalties. For example, everyone is aware of the meningitis outbreak which has spread across the country because of tainted steroids produced by a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy. Undoubtedly, owners and officers of the company will be punished appropriately. But when illicit activities of drug manufacturers don’t result in such serious troubles, they continue with their business successfully.
Journalists report about illegal actions linked with steroids, painkillers and other prescription medications daily. But you may see that pharmaceutical companies get only insignificant sentencing for illicit sale of anabolic steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs. So, sportspersons and bodybuilders have free access to doping products. They purchase steroids and other related medications from pharmaceutical companies and use them for athletic needs. Moreover, some compounding pharmacies provide fake prescriptions for anabolic-androgenic steroids. Corrupt doctors supply customers of compounding pharmacies with prescriptions which are given without required evaluation of customers’ personal conditions.
Pharmaceutical companies are responsible not only for illicit distribution of steroids. Several pharmaceutical companies produce medicines in unsterile conditions. As a result, numerous persons get tainted medicines and experience serious complications, using  these preparations. Several individuals even die from contamination resulted from intake of contaminated preparations. As you are possibly informed, 39 individuals died because of fungal meningitis resulted from contaminated methylprednisolone acetate injections.
The late contamination with fungal meningitis should influence on decisions of appropriate authorities. Criminal penalties should take place. Otherwise, health of many persons is in a serious danger. Prescription medicines must be sold just under real prescriptions. All products must be produced in sterile conditions. If drug manufacturers don’t obey all laws, they must be sanctioned. They must not be allowed to continue with business, if they violate laws. Forfeiture of licenses should be accompanied by other serious sanctions.