A Milwaukee-area girl has pled responsible to at least one rely of unlawfully distributing managed substances.
Michele Nickels, 48, owned and operated Integrative Household Wellness Middle, the place she noticed and evaluated sufferers just about whereas claiming to be a naturopathic physician, in response to paperwork filed within the case.
As a naturopathic physician, Nickels addressed the “bodily, emotional and religious elements of illness,” in response to her firm’s web site.
From June 2018 by way of April 2022, she allegedly fraudulently used the named and DEA registration of a former worker to prescribe managed substances like Adderall and different drugs to her sufferers.
“(Nickels) issued these prescriptions with out the information or consent of the previous worker and did so by forging the previous worker’s identify on the prescription,” in response to courtroom paperwork.
Nickels was a licensed acupuncturist who had graduated from Southwest School of Naturopathic Drugs in Arizona. Whereas she owned and operated Self-Integrative Household Wellness Middle, Nickels was by no means licensed to observe medication or prescribe drugs in Wisconsin. Regardless of missing the authority and licensure to prescribe drugs or managed substances, Nickels prescribed such substances over a four-year interval.
A plea settlement within the case states Nickels issued a complete of 20 unauthorized Adderall prescriptions. She additionally issued unauthorized prescriptions for 1,330 dosage items of Schedule III managed substances and 870 dosage unites of Schedule IV managed substances.
Court docket paperwork present Nickels was sentenced to 12 months and sooner or later in jail and two years of supervised launch.
