Australian doctor Peter Grant is widely known by bodybuilders/athletes

Some doctors abuse their position, prescribing medicines which don’t correspond to therapeutic needs of patients. Why does it happen? It is known that some drugs are claimed to be prescription preparations. It means that you can’t buy them legally, if you don’t have any prescription from your treating physician. Anabolic steroids belong to such medicines. It is illegal to buy steroids without a prescription in several countries. Those that do it may be punished. They may be sentenced to imprisonment and/or fines. Of course, a lot of persons seek methods to buy and use these preparations without having legal problems.
Anabolic steroids are frequently abused. Many sportspersons and bodybuilders take these drugs not for therapeutic purposes but for enhancement of performance. If they live in countries where these medications can’t be bought legally without prescriptions, they find some ways to mask their illegal purchase and application. Athletes, bodybuilders and even ordinary people ask their physicians to prescribe them these products, as if they had clinical needs to administer them. Thus, several health care providers induce selling anabolic steroids to those that abuse them. Here is a situation.
Peter Grant, an Australian doctor, recommended steroids to 14 persons during 9 years. Medical state of these persons didn’t require usage of these medications. So, the health care provider was accused of inappropriate practicing medicine. For example, he prescribed to a patient taking such drugs, as Halotestin, Sustanon, Andriol Testocaps, Deca Durabolin, Scitropin and Proviron. But there was no any medical basis to recommend these medications to this person. Moreover, these medicines were recommended him during 9 years.
The doctor Peter Grant acknowledged that several patients were competing. Thus, he prescribed them steroids. He also admitted to reading scientific information about anabolic steroids. He confirmed that he knew how steroids worked. So, he supervised the patients that administered anabolic steroids.
Taking these factors in consideration, it is possible to confirm that the doctor Peter Grant was better known by those who used steroids for increase of performance than by those that had to be treated from several diseases. Peter Grant affirmed that he knew that steroids were purchased by his patients just for personal use.
When the doctor appeared in the court, the judge affirmed that the physician induced selling steroids. The judge noted that Peter Grant had to be punished properly. Peter Grant was suspended from practicing medicine for 12 months. Furthermore, the judge claimed that he would be disciplined during the next 2 years.