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Dr. Sarah Dawn Jones pleads not guilty to drug trafficking charges

Dr. Sarah Dawn Jones is charged with a series of offences related to an alleged drug-trafficking scheme.

Jones used to work at the Crossroads Family Practice in Tantallon

A Tantallon doctor accused of trafficking 50,000 opioid pills has pleaded not guilty to a series of offences related to an alleged drug-trafficking scheme.

Police say Dr. Sarah Dawn Jones, who used to work at the Crossroads Family Practice, trafficked 50,000 oxycodone and Oxyneo pills.

Dr. Sarah Jones graduated from medical school in Dalhousie's class of 2007, and is accused of trafficking 50,000 prescription painkillers to a patient who said he never received them. (Calnen Photography/Dalhousie University)

The 35-year-old is also charged with possession for the purpose of trafficking, theft, breach of trust, drawing a document without authority and fraud.

Stan MacDonald, Jones's lawyer, appeared in Bridgewater provincial court on his client's behalf on Wednesday and entered the not guilty pleas.

A two-week trial has been set for next February.

A group of people demonstrated outside the court Wednesday, as has happened during Jones's previous court appearances. Several of the protestors said they had family members who died as a result of prescription drug abuse.

Protesters campaigning against prescription drug abuse were outside court on Wednesday. Most had lost a loved one to the problem. (Blair Rhodes/CBC)

With files from Blair Rhodes