Federal authorities announced yesterday an indictment on a Californian doctor who apparently illegally wrote thousands of prescriptions.

Doctor Ramon Scruggs and two of his associates, Allan Danto, a consultant, and Heidi Macpherson, an office manager, are facing 11 charges on the prescription of performance-enhancing drugs, more accurately for the suspected distribution of steroids and human growth hormone to patients who did not have legitimate medical reasons for using the substances, according to the New York Times.

The names and number of the players and agents involved were not mentioned. 

The investigation was carefully conducted over a long period of time, in the past few years the authorities managing to gather valuable information on the thousands of dangerous drugs or controlled substances prescriptions made without a proper examination.

The doctor had his medical practice set in the New Hope Health Center in Tustin, California and apart from the above mentioned mistakes he was also writing prescriptions all over the country without even examining the patients.

He was quoted by the New York Times saying: “If you want to know the truth, I don’t like taking 22- or 23-year-olds and putting them on steroids; it makes me nervous,” and adding: “Yet I’d rather have them come to me, and manage their steroid use, than have them do it on their own.”

The accusations against Scruggs come less than four months after George J. Mitchell released a report presenting the popular use of performance-enhancing substances in baseball. The report also involved the steroid prescriptions made by Scruggs to Troy Glaus of the St. Louis and Scott Schoeneweis of the Mets.