HGH-Pro Newsletter - April 2007

HGH Injection Online Prescription Drug Ring Arrests

In February 2007 federal agents raided compounding pharmacies in Orlando and Mobile and arrested the owners/ pharmacists.

The pharmacists are charged with dispensing prescription-only human growth hormone injections to customers who had ordered HGH injections online without seeing a doctor.

Physicians Arrested

Doctors have also been arrested and some have already plead guilty, with more arrests said to be forthcoming.

Federal agents believe these compounding pharmacies paid doctors $25 to $50 per prescription to write prescriptions for online customers which the doctors had never examined.

Also, on March 27, A. J. Peterson, the marketing director for the Oasis Longevity and Rejuvenation clinic in Delray Beach, FL, pleaded guilty to criminal diversion of prescription medications. He admitted in court that he had paid Signature Pharmacy $10,000 in cash for a connection to a physician who would willingly write human growth hormone injection prescriptions for patients that the doctor would never see.

Sports Stars Involved

More attention has been brought to these raids and ongoing investigations due to the fact that the names of some well-known professional athletes are being found on the lists of customers of the pharmacies and doctors in question.

More Arrests To Follow

The investigation into "Operation Which Doctor" continues.

DA David Soares, of the Albany NY district attorney's office who initiated the "Operation Which Doctor" investigation stated that the guilty plea of Peterson is an important step toward getting convictions against the doctors and pharmacists who have been supplying human growth hormone and steroids to numerous online customers.

Investigators have been examining the evidence seized from Signature Pharmacy in order to bring cases against 18 others who have been indicted and numerous other co-conspirators.

A. J. Peterson is the second person to plead guilty. Prosecutors say he will be cooperating as they pursue charges against the pharmacy owners and operators. They assert that Signature Pharmacy was one of several pharmacies involved in a human growth hormone and steroid ring. Prosecutors believe that Oasis and other anti-aging clinics solicited clients who were prescribed HGH injections by doctors who never saw them; those prescriptions were then filled by the alleged pharmacies.