2015
DOI: 10.1016/j.gaceta.2015.02.006
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Control de la dispensación de medicamentos esteroides anabolizantes androgénicos

Abstract: Anabolic androgenic steroids (AAS) can cause serious adverse effects when used without a therapeutic purpose. This article aims to show that the AAS are susceptible to being sold on the black market. We also aim to describe how certain limitations on the health inspection services of the Galician health service to pursue these illegal actions prompted a regulatory initiative demanding that additional actions be granted to community pharmacies when dispensing AAS. Four pharmacy inspections detected the diversio… Show more

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“…Figure 1 could be construed to mean that what occurred before the interventions was that retail pharmacies accumulated packages on their shelves and then subsequently changed their ordering pattern, yet there are a number of factors to indicate that this higher previous supply was in fact due to illicit use: (1) first, there are the results of the inspections carried out in situ on a sample of retail pharmacies, which found evidence of the diversion of a total of 3,118 packages of these drugs [33]; (2) and second, prior to the interventions there were seasonal peaks which do not appear in the billing, and which then disappear after the interventions.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Figure 1 could be construed to mean that what occurred before the interventions was that retail pharmacies accumulated packages on their shelves and then subsequently changed their ordering pattern, yet there are a number of factors to indicate that this higher previous supply was in fact due to illicit use: (1) first, there are the results of the inspections carried out in situ on a sample of retail pharmacies, which found evidence of the diversion of a total of 3,118 packages of these drugs [33]; (2) and second, prior to the interventions there were seasonal peaks which do not appear in the billing, and which then disappear after the interventions.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Los Esteroides Anabólicos Androgénicos (EAA) producen reacciones adversas si se usan indiscriminadamente con la finalidad de aumentar la masa muscular o el rendimiento físico, se usan dosis altas durante tiempo prolongado y en combinación con otras sustancias (Vázquez Mourelle, et al, 2015), la dosis puede llegar hasta 100 veces lo recomendado, aunado el hecho de que se consume la versión veterinaria ya que resulta más barata (Castillo Hernández, et al, 2013) aunque estos esteroides veterinarios contienen los mismos componentes que los esteroides para uso humano no son tan puros.…”
Section: Planteamiento Del Problemaunclassified
“…Los Esteroides Anabólicos Androgénicos (EAA) producen reacciones adversas si se usan indiscriminadamente con la finalidad de aumentar la masa muscular o el rendimiento físico, se usan dosis altas durante tiempo prolongado y en combinación con otras sustancias (Vázquez Mourelle, et al, 2015), la dosis puede llegar hasta 100 veces lo recomendado, aunado el hecho de que se consume la versión veterinaria ya que resulta más barata (Castillo Hernández, et al, 2013) aunque estos esteroides veterinarios contienen los mismos componentes que los esteroides para uso humano no son tan puros.…”
Section: Planteamiento Del Problemaunclassified