Dec 30, 2025 | 8:00 AM
A nurse practitioner in Appleton has been sentenced for illegally prescribing medication.
The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced that Jessica Friday was ordered to spend 16 months in prison after she pleaded guilty to one count of Distribution of Controlled Substances Outside the Usual Course of Professional Practice and Without a Legitimate Purpose.
Court records state that between 2020 and 2024, Friday prescribed opioids, including Oxycodone, to patients who did not need them.
She would reportedly come to an agreement with her patients where Friday would fill the prescription, as long as they allowed her to take one or more of the pills for personal use.
United States District Judge J.P. Stadtmueller commented on the “staggering” volume of prescriptions during the sentencing hearing, and he hoped this case would deter others from doing the same thing.
John McGarry, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the DEA Milwaukee District Office, added, “Medical professionals are entrusted with extraordinary authority to heal, not to harm. When they abuse that trust by illegally dispensing controlled substances, they put lives at risk and undermine the integrity of the entire medical system.”