Doctor pleads guilty on charge involving narcotics

A Charlottetown doctor pleaded guilty Thursday to charges of obtaining prescription narcotics by false pretense from a Charlottetown pharmacy.

The charges against Dr. Grant Matheson date back to a three-year period from January 2003 to December 2005. Matheson lost his licence to practise medicine in 2004.At that time the College of Physicians and Surgeons suspended Matheson for professional misconduct for prescribing narcotics for chronic pain. It later emerged Matheson had a narcotics addiction himself.

Matheson was allowed to resume practice in November 2006 with restrictions that include a prohibition on prescribing narcotics and opiates.

Matheson will be back in provincial court in Charlottetown on Dec. 17 for sentencing.