big_boy_1 said:
Everything is available...
...with a prescription. You dont need to buy black market, prescriptions are easier to get, from some docs, than in the USA.
That is 100% CRAP and FALSE
why do you offer information such as that when it is quite clear you have never been to the UK. If you do not know then best not to answer as i can assure you prescriptions are nowhere near easy to get.
OK UK LAW
Anabolic steroids are Prescription Only drugs under the Medicines Act. They can only be sold by a pharmacist on the presentation of a doctor's prescription. Anabolic steroids are also class C drugs under the Misuse of Drugs Act. It is not an offence to possess anabolic steroids for personal use, unless they are counterfeit. It is an offence to supply them. Therefore police tend to arrest for steroid possession only if they can prove the drugs are counterfeit (and therefore not prescribed by a doctor). A small number of arrests and convictions are made on this basis each year.
If a patient obtains a drug from abroad then it falls under the importing regulations.
The Medicines Control Agency has stated that up to 3 months supply can be brought into the country as long as it is for individual use.
For medicines obtained abroad, the key issue is the legal status of the medicine in the country of purchase. If it is available OTC in that country then up to 3 months supply could be brought into the UK(as long as it is not also classified as a CD within the UK) and the person could be in possession of, and use the product without
breaking any regulations.
However although possession and use of a POM for personal use does not constitute a criminal offence, supply of such products is an offence and could be easily done. For example, somebody purchasing a
medicine abroad (UK classified POM) and bringing it into the country for someone else would also be committing an offence.
Now as you can see there is still a lot of interpretation around the law but most of it is yet to be tested as it is not classified as it is in the USA. This means that yes pharm grade is far easier to obtain at reasonable cost (maybe not for the USA as remember the USD is weak against the £stirling).
There are far less UG labs in the UK than the USA as there are worse penalties for selling these (if not accurately dosed then it could be classed as counterfit and so escapes the personal use claims).
So back to the original question yes AAS can be obtained but they are not over the counter and not as risky as the USA.
Wrongun!