Pharmaceutical companies involved in illegal actions should get criminal sanctions

A lot of drug manufacturers violate laws. But only some of them are sanctioned harshly. Numerous pharmaceutical companies avoid harsh penalties successfully. But only when serious scandals are caused by illicit operations of drug manufacturers, they are sentenced to appropriate punishments. For example, everyone is aware of the meningitis outbreak which has spread across the country because of tainted steroid injections produced by a Massachusetts compounding center. Undoubtedly, owners and officials of the company will be sanctioned appropriately. But when illegal activities of pharmaceutical companies don’t lead to such serious troubles, they continue with their business successfully.
Journalists report about illegal actions connected with anabolic steroids, painkillers and other prescription medications daily. But you may notice that pharmaceutical companies get only insignificant sentencing for illicit distribution of anabolic steroids and other doping products. Thus, athletes and bodybuilders have free access to doping products. They acquire steroids and other related preparations from compounding centers and administer them for athletic purposes. Moreover, several pharmacies provide fake prescriptions for anabolic steroids. Corrupt doctors supply customers of pharmacies with prescriptions which are given without proper examination of customers’ personal conditions.
Pharmaceutical companies are responsible not only for illicit distribution of anabolic-androgenic steroids. Several companies manufacture drugs in unsterile conditions. As a result, many persons get contaminated preparations and experience grave complications, applying  these preparations. Several individuals even die from contamination resulted from application of tainted preparations. As you are possibly informed, 39 persons died because of fungal meningitis resulted from contaminated methylprednisolone acetate injections.
The recent contamination with fungal meningitis should have an impact on decisions of proper authorities. Criminal penalties should take place. Otherwise, health of numerous individuals is in a serious danger. Prescription preparations must be sold only under real prescriptions. All preparations must be manufactured in sterile conditions. If drug manufacturers don’t obey all laws, they must be sanctioned. They must not be allowed to continue with business, if they violate laws. Loss of licenses should be accompanied by other harsh sanctions.