According to the latest reports, Rick Ankiel and former World Series MVP Troy Glaus received performance-enhancing drugs – possibly including HGH (human growth hormone) - from a Florida pharmacy under investigation for illegally distributing prescription medications.

Ankiel acknowledged on Friday that he procured the forbidden medicine from the above mentioned pharmacy after 2004 and that this was prescribed by a doctor during his recovery from Tommy John reconstructive surgery on his left elbow.

The St. Louis pitcher, who hit nine home runs since he was brought up from the Minors on Aug. 10, made this statement as a response to a report in Friday's New York Daily News which said that he had received a 12-month supply of HGH from an Internet pharmacy that was part of a national illegal prescription-drug-distribution operation.

Ankiel made no secret that he knowingly took the medicine prescribed to him as a part of his recovery program.

"Correct," he answered. "Any medication I received in my career has always been under a doctor's care."

When asked expressly if that prescription included HGH, he would neither confirm nor deny it.

"I'm not going to go into the list of what my doctors have prescribed for me," he said.

According to the Daily News report, Ankiel received eight shipments of human growth hormone from January to December 2004 and Troy Glaus, currently with the Toronto Blue Jays, also received several shipments of Nandrolone and testosterone between September 2003 and May 2004, SI.com accounted.

MLB doesn't test for HGH, and the human growth hormone wasn’t banned until 2005, but a player who possessed it or used it after it was banned could be suspended for 50 games.