Abbott Laboratories found way to take advantage of steroid scandal linked with Barry Bonds

It seems that steroid scandals must influence negatively on manufacture of these drugs. But manufacturers of these drugs find methods to take advantages of different steroid scandals. Thus, pharmaceutical companies utilize them in order to advertise own products.
Let take as an example the doping case related to Barry Bonds. Although one may suppose that this steroid scandal must suppress purchase of several medications, the reality has demonstrated opposite things. The pharmaceutical company Abbott Laboratories could take advantage of the case. The company found many possibilities to promote selling transdermal testosterone because of the accusations linked with Barry Bonds’ doping.
It was stated that the former MLB player Barry Bonds used the testosterone gel “AndroGel”. Of course, numerous reporters published articles about this case. The pharmaceutical company Abbott Laboratories used this public fight and began to advertise this product. Many Barry Bonds’ fans started getting and using this gel. This situation influenced on profits of Abbot Laboratories essentially. According to certain sources, the profits of Abbott Laboratories turned out to be great.
Testosterone products are widely prescribed and administered. Numerous persons administer them for testosterone replacement therapy. The number of steroid prescriptions has increased by 90 % during last five years. So, the number of those that administer steroids is growing.
Abbott Laboratories produces and sells the transdermal testosterone product “AndroGel”. Since other companies saw that testosterone gel was in high demand, they also started to produce it. So, such medicines, as  AndroDream and Axiron, appeared. While AndroDream is sold by Watson Pharmaceuticals, Axiron is sold by Eli Lilly.
Pharmaceutical companies promote selling their medicines. They affirm that steroids improve males’ health. It goes without any saying that any company realizes that since many males have insufficient production of testosterone and since these preparations are applied for gaining of muscle mass and endurance, the number of potential customers is great.