Not with the proper precautions. Out of the whole world, only 5 countries ban steroids. What does that tell you? How many countries are in the whole world? How many cases of gynecomastia? Cases of gynecomastia is greater in the US, yet medicines that causes and combat this condition are forbidden here. In other countries where these medicines are over the counter along with tamoxifen, cases of gynecomastia are lower. Someone needs to do a study on this.
Our government is the main leading combatant in this. First, by banning all hormones and teaching very little about them, causes people to abuse them which causes gynecomastia and are not able to prevent it by the usage of the proper available medicine and medical overseeing. If it was legal, most people would be able to freely inquire with their physician, get the correct dossage and administer the proper balance that will never cause gynecomastia.
I mean, at the end, steroids are legal medicines to treat anemia in the USA. Go to
www.walgreens.com or
www.cvs.com, check out the pharmacy section and see the prices. Funny how inflated the prices are, the same medicine accross the border costs 10% of what it costs here in the all good US. Do you know what it is? More profits for pharmaceutical companies. For example, HGH is listed at over $3000, yet, it is only $50 USD in Mexico from the same company and it is not even steroids. Lipitor, a medicine to lower cholesterol, in the US it goes for about $125 for a 30 day supply, in Mexico the same drug from the same company it is only $52 USD. Why? The richer gets richer. They do not care if you can afford to lower your own cholesterol, all they want is more money.
Let's try not to be or make it seem as all of us here are morally perfect. How many of you taken any medicine that was not prescribed to you? How many of you smoked marijuana (which is not even an acceptable medicine with the majority)? Is it illegal to use a medicine when is over the counter and legal within your jurisdiction. If I was to move to Mexico for 3 months and use steroids or any ther medicine that is not controlled, does that make me morally wrong because they are banned in the US. I do not think so.
It's like needles. I am not a drug user; however, I do see a problem with the government controlling the sale of syringes. The usage of dirty syringes causes higher chances of transmittance of infectious diseases, so the government decides to ban them. Helloo!!!! Do you think that drug users are just going to stop their addiction. If they wanted to lower percentage of transmittance of high risk infectious diseases, they would allow free flow of syringes. Then they will be no persons sharing dirty needles thus reducing the risks associated with sharing such dirty needles. Maybe even aids would be lower.
The government believes that by banning certain things it creates and overall closure to the issue at risk, which is totally false. Just like this site, you can write about anything, you can call someone something, you can write stupid post like self-surgery, you can pretty much post anything short of obscenities and the moderator would not ban or remove your post. If it gets to stupid, like self-surgery, they might just lock the post but not remove it. Yet, if you talk about how certain surgeons use this site to promote their own business or enterprise, which is wrong, the moderator would disappear your posting. For example, a certain surgeon is always listing how he does over 200 surgeries a year. Obviously, he does this to show how experience he or she is. But if you are half smart, you would realize that at 7000 each and with over 200 a year, it totals over 1,400,000.00 yearly. Does he or she really need to post here with every other comment refering to his style or how he does the surgeries. I do not mine MD's posting on this site to answer a few questions which would show their commitment to really help the ease for those suffering from this condition. But I do not appreciate the self advrtisement and banning by moderators when trying to make a point about it.
In conclusion, if doctors are allow and encourage to use this site to advertise, we should be able to talk and advertise anything also. They are not better than us, we are the ones suffering with this condition and not them, hence the name gynecomastia.org. So every time that an MD comes here to advertise, let's give them the proper salute, go some where else. If they want to answer a certain questions, limit the answer to that. I am really sick of hearing about the dynamic style. I think that everyone on this site remembers this site when ever you hear dynamic anywhere.
When this site started back in 2002 I believe, you did not have that many advertisement from MD's, but it has increased to dynamic levels.