Athletes obtain performance-enhancing drugs from anti-aging clinics

Numerous anti-aging clinics are linked with doping scandals. It’s not surprisingly because they supply sportspersons and bodybuilders with steroids and other related preparations. When appropriate authorities raid anti-aging clinics and seize medical records, they find out that some well-known sport figures belong to clients of the clinics.
Recently some anti-aging clinics located in Miami were investigated. Feds defined that the clinics offered prescription drugs for sale illegally. The clinics sold medicines for enhancement of muscle mass, reduction of fat deposits, increase of endurance, etc.
According to the newspaper the Miami New Times, the anti-aging clinic Biogenesis was found guilty of illicit sale of doping products. Moreover, such celebrated baseball players, as Alex Rodriquez and Melky Cabrera bought doping products at Biogenesis of America. So, the anti-aging clinic turned out to be linked with one of the biggest doping scandals in the sport of baseball.
Medical records of Biogenesis were taken from an employee of the clinic. The records were presented on the site of the newspaper Miami New Times. Journalists noticed that the employee who provided the records didn’t want to be identified.
It is reported that anabolic steroids, HGH, IGF-1 and other prescription medicines are widely offered for sale illegally by anti-aging clinics. Moreover, clinics hire physicians who provide fake prescriptions. Prescriptions for steroids and other related preparations are often given to clients without proper examination of their individual conditions. Furthermore, physicians supply clients with needed prescriptions even without seeing them. In additions to these aspects, certain corrupt doctors permit anti-aging clinics to use their prescription pads. As a result, anti-aging clinics sell anabolic steroids, painkillers and other prescription drugs illicitly, as if they worked legally.
When illegal operations of anti-aging clinics become evident, owners of clinics, physicians and some employees are sentenced to several sanctions. Nevertheless, the risk to receive punishment doesn’t stop clinics from their illicit actions. However proper authorities try to eradicate illegal sale of prescription preparations, their success is not yet essential.