A Nova Scotia doctor is facing numerous charges after police allege she prescribed more than 50,000 oxycodone pills to patient who did not receive them.

Bridgewater police charged Dr. Sarah Dawn Jones, 35, with the following offences after a seven-month investigation:

  • one count of theft
  • two counts of fraud
  • one count of possession of OxyNEO and oxycodone
  • one count of possession of OxyNEO and oxycodone for the purposes of trafficking
  • one count of breach of trust
  • one count of drawing a document without authority

Police say she prescribed the pills over a 12-month period and that the Nova Scotia College of Physicians and Surgeons co-operated with the investigation.

Jones has been released from police custody and is scheduled to appear in Bridgewater court on May 11.