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A question I’ve never been able to get a clear answer on is why some clinics and doctors will not provide TRT or HRT to patients who show previous steroid use as a reason to not provide TRT or HRT to a patient who may require TRT-HRT, but in any other circumstance doctors and clinics will help anyone who previous showed use of any other drug.
AlphaMD's Answer
I think it’s the “bleed over effect” that other controlled substances instill in them. It’s possible that they fear “feeding an addiction” in someone with previous history of use of an illegal substance.But I think that these medical providers are also not using logic. Someone can die of an overdose of narcotics, but no one has died of an overdose of testosterone. Also, testosterone is not a mind-altering substance, unlike essentially all other DEA scheduled drugs. While harm can occur from prolonged excessive use of testosterone, the same can be said of Tylenol, which is OTC.We at AlphaMD believe that testosterone should not be on the DEA’s list of scheduled medications at all. To that end, we believe that just because someone may have “dabbled” with self-treatment in the past does not mean that they are excluded from needing treatment in the present.
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