Patient tells judge he didn’t receive oxycodone doctor allegedly prescribed him
BRIDGEWATER, N.S. — A former patient of a Nova Scotia doctor accused of drug trafficking and fraud testified Tuesday that he did not receive pills even though records show they were prescribed to him.
“As God is my witness, I never got them,” Merle Chase told the trial of Dr. Sarah Dawn Jones in Bridgewater provincial court.
The Crown alleges Jones wrote prescriptions for 50,000 oxycodone and OxyNeo pills to a patient, but the drugs were diverted to the community.
Chase said Jones was his doctor for four or five years, and that he started seeing her in 2010. He would drive to see her at her office in Tantallon before getting into a car accident later that year. She then started making house calls.