Gold Coast doctor sanctioned for steroid prescriptions

A Gold Coast doctor has inappropriately prescribed medications, including steroids, to 14 patients.

An official investigation into anabolic steroid use on the Gold Coast has netted a long-standing GP, who inappropriately prescribed the drugs to 14 patients over more than nine years.

Peter Grant, who faces sanctions, has practised as a GP in Queensland since 1985.

In late 2009, Queensland Health cancelled his power to prescribe some classes of restricted drugs after the department investigated the GP's practice of writing scripts for medications "for body building rather than therapeutic purposes".

Dr Grant's activities came to light when the department conducted a state-wide audit of the dispensing of pseudoephedrine.

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At the same time, the department was conducting an ongoing investigation into anabolic steroid use in the Gold Coast area.

Dr Grant agreed he had inappropriately prescribed medications to 14 patients at the Mermaid Beach Medical Centre, according to Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal deputy president Judge Fleur Kingham's recent ruling.

The earliest allegation dated back to February 2000, when Dr Grant took on a new patient.

"In all he treated him for more than nine years, until April 2009," according to Judge Kingham.

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