The doctor who allegedly prescribed steroids and other drugs to wrestler Chris Benoit was indicted today on 175 federal counts of illegal prescription abuse.

Dr. Phil Astin III was indicted in July 2007 on seven federal counts of overprescribing to two people other than Benoit. Today's indictment includes the charges from the first indictment and adds 150 counts relating to 17 additional patients.

The patients allegedly received illegal prescriptions for Percocet, Oxycontin, Demerol, Lorcet, Ritalin, Vicodin, Xanax, Adderall and Soma. The indictment also alleges the drugs Astin dispensed resulted in the death of a patient.

Federal authorities previously said Astin had prescribed a 10-month supply of anabolic steroids to Benoit every three to four weeks between May 2006 and May 2007.

Benoit killed his wife and son at their Fayetteville home last summer and then hanged himself.

Astin, who was forced to surrender his medical license in July, told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in October he had already spent $50,000 toward his legal defense. He was soon declared financially indigent by the court and had a federal defender appointed to him.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Linda T. Walker ruled in January that Astin could be exempted on weekdays from his house arrest so that he could work at the nearby Strickland's Towing Service.