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The [[United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania]] also alleged that Gosnell's former office staff at Women's Medical Society ran a prescription "[[pill mill]]". From June 2008 through February 18, 2010, Gosnell allegedly engaged in a continuing criminal enterprise by writing and dispensing fraudulent prescriptions for thousands of pills of the frequently abused tablets [[OxyContin]], [[Percocet]], and [[Xanax]], and the frequently abused syrups [[phenergan]] and [[promethazine]] with [[codeine]]. Authorities further alleged that Gosnell and his staff allowed customers to purchase multiple prescriptions under multiple names. For the first office visit, Gosnell allegedly charged $115, but around December 2009 he allegedly increased the initial office visit fee to $150. Staff at the clinic went from writing several hundred prescriptions for controlled substances per month filled at pharmacies in 2008 to over 2,300 filled at pharmacies in January 2010. Gosnell, with the assistance of his staff, is said to have distributed and dispensed more than 500,000 pills containing [[oxycodone]]; more than 400,000 pills containing [[alprazolam]]; and more than 19,000 ounces of cough syrup containing codeine.<ref>{{cite press release |url=https://www.justice.gov/usao/pae/News/2011/Dec/gosnell_release.htm |date=December 14, 2011 |publisher=[[United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania]] |title=Philadelphia Doctor Charged With Running Pill Mill |access-date=April 13, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130513031154/http://www.justice.gov/usao/pae/News/2011/Dec/gosnell_release.htm |archive-date=May 13, 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Gosnell's lawyer stated that, "Everybody's made him the butcher, this, that and the other thing without any trial, without anything being exposed to the public and everybody's found him guilty, that's not right".<ref>{{cite news |url = http://www.myfoxphilly.com/story/17529873/gosnell-case-heading-right-to-trial |title = Gosnell Case Heading Right To Trial |publisher = [[WTXF-TV]] |location = [[Philadelphia, PA]] |date = February 9, 2011 |access-date = April 13, 2013 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150403134835/http://www.myfoxphilly.com/story/17529873/gosnell-case-heading-right-to-trial |archive-date = April 3, 2015 |url-status = dead }}</ref> He accused the government of a "[[lynching]]" and stated, "This is a targeted, elitist and racist prosecution of a doctor who's done nothing but give [back] to the poor and the people of West Philadelphia."<ref name="guardian.co.uk" /> Following his arrest, Gosnell claimed, "I'm very close to being destitute". However, records
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