They are often too under-resourced and understaffed to keep a watchful eye on all medical providers. In recent years, the Justice Department has started coming for unscrupulous doctors and pharmacists, too. But one thing that I was really curious about is how you actually went from having opioids being a thing that existed to having opioids be a thing that existed in peoples medicine cabinets. Listen to the trailer for. She was referred to Jeff by one of her friends. It wasnt like any medical office Id ever been to. An active and fun show following the life of FNP Jeff Young II at work and his life after work. He invited a cameraman to document his life and eventually had it edited into a pilot for a reality-TV show. Brown hair, green eyes, amazing body. He smells them again. One story I found in a letter from Jeffs nursing-board case stuck with me. A few months into their new venture, Reitz and Young were supposed to meet to discuss the running of the clinic. A transcript of this episode is presented below: (Abruptly, rock music begins to play, and then, just as quickly, it ends with a light echo.). Young was indicted on drug-trafficking charges in April 2019. Hes just laid back. (Fades under.). In May 2019, shortly after Young was indicted, I traveled to Jackson to try to understand the place that gave rise to the Rock Doc. Nurse practitioner Jeff Young, known as the "Rock Doc," and . (Somber, reflective droning notes play up. All of his patients I saw when I would come would be all white. Ballard: Most doctors dont wanna touch you, and they only wanna address one issue at a time. Five other medical providers, just in Jackson, were indicted too. Listen to the trailer for, The Hard-Partying, Rock-Obsessed Nurse at the Center of a Massive Opioid Bust. Khazan: Christi had really appreciated what Jeff did for her. Scott Deberry: And, you know, once you get around the tattoos and the way he talkscause he talks to you as if hes talking to you on the streets As long as he was going to take care of me and make me feel okay, or make me feel better, I had no problem with that. Khazan: LaRhonda was skepticalbut she was also dealing with a lot of pain. When it was getting close to the end of when I was going, it would be packed. Most doctor appointments, after all, average a nerve-racking 17 minutes, in which you spill out a complicated medical history and pray the doctor has a good solution. I need you to find this fucker, he wrote, according to court testimony later reported by The Jackson Sun. 14:46. His black shirt collar didnt quite hide the tattoos on the back of his neck. Youngs story raises the question of where care crosses into harm. November 7, 2018, marked the beginning of legal repercussions for Young. He remarried in 2006. Khazan: Do you feel like Jeff has done more harm than good? * This article has been clarified to more accurately convey the details of Gutgsell's plea. In November 2016, the health department threatened to file charges against Young before the board of nursing. Other female patients checkout sheets simply said No charge., Though he portrayed himself as harmlessly vulgar, Young could, in fact, get violent with women. I told him about this podcastexplained to him what a podcast was. Apparently she felt strongly enough about it that he wouldnt leave her alone if she went to see him. The agency also searched Youngs cellphone. Thats the only way you can describe it. The department suggested that he surrender his license in order to resolve the matter quickly, but according to a report from The Tennessean and The Jackson Sun, a defiant Young rejected that offer. This is The Experiment, a show about our unfinished country. The opioid epidemicwhich appears to only be getting worsehas made clear that wherever pain exists in America, grifters will follow. had lower back pain and complained of numbness in his left arm. Several others dismissed the notion that Young could be sexually coercive. Khazan: The Rock Doc, Jeff Young, has been in jail for almost two years, awaiting trial. I expected to hear lots of horror stories of abuse and mistreatment. During one club night, Young bought Stephanie two drinks and his friends handed them to her. Well all be killed., It helped that Young had prominent friends he could call on for help. Several people suggested suing for defamation a news station that reported on the incident. The resulting videos are typical scenes from a medical practicepeople donning gloves, waiting in chairsspliced together over a heavy-metal soundtrack. The men each contributed $40,000 to the endeavor. (Ringing leads into a soft, humming organ song.). Its a shame, he told me, that Young got into so much legal trouble; think of all the people he might have helped. Scott Deberry: When I first was going in the office, I could go in there and thered be maybe 10 of us in there. Find Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and TikTok profiles, images and more on IDCrawl - free people search website. Jeff refilled M.Y.s prescriptions for Percocet and Valium and gave him a new one for hydrocodone. Young: Listen, I am for the patient. Automated News Feed Subreddit No Censorship, Just News. Being around Young made her feel emotionally safe, she said. Kevin: And were going to ask our friendsour warriors out thereto put these folks in their place, because, you know, the Golden Rule. Young: All right. Downtown has an old-fashioned square, a few coffee shops striving for trendiness, and some suburban standbysMcAlisters Deli, Kohls, Chilis, Panera Breadall connected by well-maintained roads and featuring black oceans of parking lots. Khazan: But the pilot also showed the other side of Jeff. Be part of The Experiment. Jackson, TN USA. Looking for Jeff Young online? (The synthesizer takes over the harmony, traipsing up and down the melody line before it quiets and the episode ends.). Alperovichs lawyer declined to comment.). Many people in Jackson seemed to see themselves in Young. Trial dates have been set for "Rock Doc" Jeffery Young, his supervising physicians, and two more medical professionals recently indicted on additional drug trafficking charges. PreventaGenix, with its Doric columns and grand portico, appeared to preside over the rest. One January morning, officers swarmed the road outside the PreventaGenix building, guns drawn. He blasted heavy metal at his private practice and filled his Instagram feed with photos of himself smoking cigars. (Patel did not respond to requests for comment.) Have you ever been to a doctor and you just didnt feel comfortable? Minutes after finishing the second drink, Stephanie fell face-first onto the floor. He has three children, two sons, and a daughter, from his first marriage. Khazan: The one that caught my eye was this guy named Jeff Young, a nurse practitioner who called himself the Rock Doc, quote-unquote. While Youngs antics could be a nightmare for his staff, his pool of patients increased as word about his practice spread. She told me that while she was a patient at the clinic, she had a front-row seat to Preventagenix getting more and more popular. This social-media stardom appears to have helped inoculate him against concerns that his loose approach to medicine could harm anyone. Prosecutors say Young used his rebellious persona to take advantage of patients, distributing highly addictive painkillers on demand and in large quantities for profitand, often, his own sexual gratification. Visit our website terms of use at www.wnyc.org for further information. Jeff didnt monitor M.Y.s use, or talk to him about the danger of combining drugs. It surprised her, but Jeff was attuned to all that. Lets see here, shes 23, Young says. His friend Melanie Lupino, a local bartender, said he got girlfriends easily, so she was baffled by the notion that he would have to give people drugs to get sex. Hes just one of the guys that you could drink a beer with, or you can go let him give you a shot in the ass (Fades under.). Naylor: Thats a really hard question for me to answer, because I believeour whole family believesthat he saved my husbands life. Rudins lawyer did not respond to a request for comment. Khazan: Looking at all the allegations, I mean, its overprescribingoverprescribing to someone whose pill bottles had his name on them and who died of a drug overdose. Longoria: Opioids would be a new kind of painkiller to treat not just acute pain after an event like a surgery, but also pain that was more mundane, like chronic back pain that patients would complain about for years, but which doctors didnt have a clear cure for. Years before the launch of PreventaGenix, Young had already been accused of abusing his nurse-practitioner license. We put out calls and emails to dozens of Jeff Youngs patients. She wasnt the only patient to stick by him. I had a lot of Why on earth? questions, the Atlantic reporter Olga Khazan says. Branding himself as the "Rock Doc," he flooded his social media accounts with images of a party-loving lifestyle, vitriol for his "haters" and even a pilot episode for a reality TV show . (They relied on messages obtained by agents during the investigations into Young.) He wasnt in pain. Without doing a physical exam, Young diagnosed MY with chronic lower-back pain and anxiety, the letter details. But it played [Emphasizing.] Khazan: Tanya had a different theory about where all the criticism was actually coming from. The next year, Jeff prescribed M.Y. The camera follows Young as he treats patients, talks on a local radio station, dances with women at a club, and brags about drinking. I mean, I worked at a bank for 15 years, and when youve worked at a bank and youve cashed checks, you have to judge people in two seconds. The Daily Beast Automated News Feed No Censorship, Just News. But that did not put a stop to Youngs ambitions. Naylor: My husband hadnt been to a doctor in years. I asked to speak with him for this story, but because of a gag order on the case, his lawyer declined interviews with me. Another compared Young to a brother and called my reporting disrespectful.. Young was a people pleaser, as one former employee described him. Theres this moment in one of the videos that I keep thinking about: Young: (Over more pool filtration.) And the consequences might have gone beyond sexual abuse and addiction. In the past five years, at least 40 medical providers nationwide have been accused of exchanging sex for addictive drugs. Khazan: So, like, that doctor-patient interaction and how the opioids actually got prescribed. Thank you for listening. Why would he do this? Like many actual rock stars, he flamed out on his own extravagant lifestyle. If PreventaGenix staffers suspected that a patient was abusing drugs, they would sometimes try to fire the patient, by telling him or her not to return to the clinic. You may not like my rock and roll, you may not like my piercings, you may not like my sexy-ass beard, but you know what? The daughter, Melody, actually works in her dad's vet clinic. Young seemed eager to hire lots of staff, but would end up firing them later. She appreciated that he asked about her grandkids. When I visited the clinic shortly before the hearing, Young had just finished up with a patient. He would chitchat with his patients, ask them about their latest tattoos. (Young has pleaded not guilty to all charges. ), Youngs sexual desires and need to please patients allegedly soon blurred together. What a great, great, great, great song! He soon opened a new clinic, which he called GeneXis Health. JACKSON, Tenn. The end is nowhere close for three medical professionals charged in a federal opioid crackdown earlier this year. Young did seem to be famous enough in Jackson, however, to reinforce his own grand vision of himself. Youngs case provides a rare glimpse into the ways patients wind up addicted to the powerful painkillers fueling the national opioid epidemic. Young cries at his sons fifth-grade graduation, then explains that hes so emotional because his nurses are having their periods. If a patient would text him a compliment, he would blast it all over Facebook, one former employee told me. When one patient told Young over Facebook Messenger that she was in shitty health and about to jump off a bridge, he prescribed her a cocktail of several different drugs, including fentanyl. Ultimately, what hastened Youngs downfall is that some of the female patients asking him for drugs were undercover officers. And Im like, Oh. [A beat.] Some of his patients were police officers whom he would occasionally ask for favors. Rumors started to spread in town that strange things were going on in Jeffs office. Naylor: I felt like he was being treated unfairlythat maybe he had even been set up. In fact, he avoided doctors at all costs. (The drugmaker that is most often blamed for the epidemic doesnt agree with this assessment: Suggesting that activities that last occurred more than 16 years ago are responsible for todays complex and multifaceted opioid crisis is deeply flawed, a Purdue Pharma spokesperson, Robert Josephson, said in a statement to The New York Times for a story on this issue.). Not all of them were into the whole edgy hard-rock thing at first. He would still be allowed to prescribe testosterone and cough syrup with codeine, however. (Dawn did not press charges at the time, and she declined to speak with me for this story.). Never give up God is full of second chances, one woman wrote. American doctors went on to prescribe opioids at much higher rates than their counterparts in other countries. One agent testified in court that the bureau had uncovered Facebook messages such as one sent to Young in August 2016 by someone known in court as SW: My girl for eight years is an addict You write her any more scripts youre going to kill her, man. Meanwhile, many of Youngs patient charts had allegedly stopped being monitored: One supervising physician came in once, reviewed Youngs charts, and withdrew from the supervising agreement immediately based on what he saw. About four years after its investigation began, the nursing board finally held a hearing to consider his fate. Thats okay. Khazan: And some of what she saw really weirded her out. The biggest blow came in 2019, when Jeff was indicted by the federal government for overprescribing opioids, often in order to get, quote, money, notoriety, and sexual favors., In a court hearing, investigators described several Facebook messages between Jeff and his patients, identified only by their initials. So, no, I cant say that. And whats remarkable about the Rock Doc is that he streamed his private interactions with patients online. With Young at least temporarily behind bars, some of his fans seem to have reached a point of disillusionment with the Rock Docor, at least, a point of fatigue. And I said, And they say that youre trading sex for medication. He was like, You know, these motherfuckers lie all the damn time. [Chuckles.] Were tracing your fucking account now, so you better be prepared to reap the whirlwind of your bullshit., As he gathered followers, Young began to deploy his social-media presence to hunt down and intimidate his former employees and ex-friends, some of whom told me they felt threatened by Young and his followers. In 2014, Jeff started seeing a patient with the initials M.Y. Khazan: The Rock Doc, Jeff Young, has been in jail for almost two years, awaiting trial. Rachel Fullington, an early employee of Youngs, told me Young wanted the clinics atmosphere to be loose and fun, while the others wanted it to be more buttoned-up. Khazan: A lot of them, unfortunately, went with it. He raises a glass filled with red wine, as if in a toast. They didnt drop F-bombs or smell womens underwear online. The grosser side. In August 2015, Young prescribed MY what the letter calls a dangerous combination of an opioid, a benzodiazepine, and a muscle relaxant. He even convinced her to get weight-loss surgery. Calles: I mean, the whole deal of him being in jail this long is completely unfair. Im Julia Longoria. Patients, meanwhile, dont always know that medical boards exist in the first place, or that they can complain to them if theyve been wronged, Lisa Robin, the chief advocacy officer for the Federation of State Medical Boards, says. Young would call these liaisons nooners or say it was tap-that-ass Tuesday, according to court testimony. Longoria: The indictment against the Rock Doc alleges that he prescribed more than a million addictive pills, treated patients while intoxicated, and used his prescribing power to have sex with womenincluding women who were his patients. I mean, you wouldve thought they were giving away meds for free, to be honest. Make and Model: The only Billboard Hot 100 entry for new wave greats The Cars with an automotive title to match their band name . Khazan: Or stitch someone up after they cut themselves on a wine glass. It feels claustrophobic.). Who cares? All throughout the past few months, Youngs fans have papered his Facebook wall with loving messages. Khazan: Part of making her feel better was prescribing her opioids. [Chuckles.] He would sometimes brag about having sex on his lunch break, sharing with his staff pictures of his conquests, three employees said. Oh, look, I got a new haircut today (Fades under.). Jackson Sun. Nearly a fifth of the citys residents live below the poverty line, and many are afflicted with chronic diseases that often accompany the stresses of a low income. Jeff wanted what was best for his patient. Off camera, Young allegedly prescribed 1.4 million addictive pills and had sex with female patients. Opioid manufacturers such as Endo, the maker of Opana, and Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, targeted high-volume providers, in particular generalists, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants, who generally had less expertise in pain management and were more receptive to marketing from sales consultants, according to a lawsuit filed by the state of Tennessee against Endo in May 2019. One young man told me he went to Youngs house that year to pay cash for a vial, knowing that a traditional doctor would be unlikely to prescribe testosterone to a healthy teenage boy. Employees I spoke with said he eventually was seeing 50 to 85 patients a day, compared with about 20 for the average doctor, and most of them seemed to be on opioids. Always have been for the patient. To have a medical provider be polite to you, accept you, maybe even dig through your charts to find the root cause of your ailmentsit can be validating. And even then, I didnt want to hear it. Trust me, I got people, he says to the camera. Like, all these doctors who are really out of line and just writing so many scripts for so many addictive drugs, theyre really not being careful at all. ), Khazan: So doctors were kind of like, Okay.. He graduated from Union University, an evangelical Christian school, in 1995, then earned a degree from the University of Tennessee College of Nursing in 2003. I dont wear underwear. MY came to PreventaGenix complaining of lower-back pain and numbness in his left arm, and asked for refills of pain medications. She texted Jeff. For the cosmetically minded, he hosted alcohol-fueled Botox parties. Thats okay. Khazan: I talked to many of Jeffs patients. This episode was reported by Olga Khazan and produced by Alvin Melathe. Otherwise, fledgling practices, in particular, risk losing patients. Dr. Jeff is married to Petra Mickova Petra though she is his second wife. The whole thing was Very Online. Branding himself the Rock Doc in a self-produced reality-TV pilot, Young would wear band T-shirts and blast music as he met with patients; he sometimes broadcast appointments and medical procedures on the live-streaming app Periscope. Look at me! Young and Phillips, both longtime musicians, reveal that theyre working on some rap songs about Youngs haters, then ponder how to do gang signs. To date, none of the alleged victims in Youngs court case has come forward publicly to speak against him. He decked out PreventaGenix with psychedelic artwork and set the stereo to loud rock. One other factor might help account for his long, illicit career: the sheer number of patients who stood by him, almost to the very end. every time. In February 2016, he texted one of his opioid patients, a police officer named Jay Green. Khazan: There was this really big series of indictments that came down in 2019 where the federal government said, You know what? Khazan: The first time I watched this video, I just heard Jeff making excuses. Women were drawn to Young; he had a big house and was the first to buy everyones drink. As the court spent two days scrutinizing his years of alleged misdeeds, he sat mostly silently. Reitz says he and his girlfriend came up with the unwieldy namea futuristic combination of prevent and genetics. An obese man explains that Young helped him with his swollen leg. Additional music by Nelson Bandela (04 HIDDEN FORCES and Auddi Sun 01 131). So it just kind of, I guess, comforted me. At this point, the people of Jackson knew the full extent of officials suspicions about Young. Every time. Why didnt anyone try to put a stop to this? I just had a lot of questions about how could this happen, you know? One former patient who had a falling-out with Young told me he or someone associated with him attacked her on the internet forum Topix, calling her a whore and a drunk. She said her home address and photos of her adult daughters were posted on the site, along with rape threats directed at her daughters. The week that followed Martin Luther King Jr.s assassination was revolutionaryso why was it nearly forgotten? Shed come to see Jeff for a range of health issues, from diabetes to cystitis, and she just didnt buy the things people were saying about him. According to a medical-board report, one employee recalled Young having sex in his office with a patient who appeared to be drugged; when Young left, she was passed out on the couch. Why would you go to this doctor? Olga Khazan: At the time, there wasnt a lot of limits on pharmaceutical companies being able to tell doctors that. In addition to steroid shots, Young prescribed her oxycodone, Xanax, and Adderall for her various medical issues. Ill meet you there. It moved so slowly in punishing drug-addicted nurses that some were able to get new jobs and steal narcotics while under investigation, an eastern Tennessee news station, WJHL, found in 2016. Its heavy, and it loops. The scenes are meant to serve as a testament to the effectiveness of Youngs work hard, play harder ethos. Young put his name behind charity projects around town, took health insurance, and offered discounts for people who otherwise couldnt afford care. Ballard: When it comes to the high-society people, like the pharmacists and these other doctors that were out to get money out of their patientsJeff didnt care about the money. Khazan: To me, this felt immature, but it was all part of the brand. The self-proclaimed "Rock Doc" is accused of trading powerful . The pilot footagesome of which Young posted to YouTube, and some of which I obtained from a person who was once close to Youngportrays the Rock Doc as a medical bad boy whos willing to break free from the establishment to deliver real talk. Kevin: (In a Periscope video.) Tune in today! Most of these doctors werent like Jeff. (Endo denied the allegations.) (Later, Phillips pleaded guilty to threatening a Drug Enforcement Administration agent who was investigating Young. So hes a little out there. Khazan: And he posted dozens of videos there. According to police reports and court records, his second ex-wife, Dawn, claimed that throughout their relationship Young repeatedly pushed, threatened, and attempted to rape her. I am a, uh, nurse practitioner. The cameraman who shot the pilot, who requested anonymity because he doesnt want to be associated with Youngs case, heard about Young through a mutual friend and visited him several times to shoot footage for what he hoped could become a reality show. Khazan: Jeff was working as a nurse practitioner at a clinic called Preventagenix in Jackson, Tennessee. Jeffrey Young was one of those people. (The music opens up into a technologic rainforest as synthesizers mimic birdsong.). Young was, in short, a medical provider who acted like everyones best friend. Khazan: Jeff had been good to Tanya in the clinic, which was an experience that she didnt usually have with doctors. Purdue ad doctor: They dont wear out. Am I a misogynist, or do women just like rough sex? Young asks himself in one video. Though many of these deaths have been caused by street drugs such as heroin and illegally manufactured fentanyl, the nations opioid epidemic was sparked by the kinds of painkillers medical providers prescribed. M.Y. And you can kind of look at it like locker-room talk . Strippers, tattoo artists, and rock-band groupies saw a kindred spirit in Young and came to him as patients. And no education whatsoever, Phillips jokes. So you got to be a good judge of character. Young neither admits nor denies the following allegations, Tracy Alcock, a lawyer with the state health department, said at the hearing, but he acknowledges that the departments proof would show the following: From August 2013 to November 2016, Young prescribed controlled substances in amounts and for durations that were not medically necessary, advisable, or justified for a diagnosed condition. The board put his license on probation for two years, during which time he could not prescribe certain Schedule II or Schedule III controlled substances, including drugs such as oxycodone, fentanyl, Vicodin, and Adderall. I mean, he had his doctors lab coat on. (A moment of narrative silence. But tonally, much of the footage betrays him. Even when they do, the boards are mainly composed of doctors and nurses peers, who can be reluctant to throw the book at one of their own, says Rebecca Haw Allensworth, a Vanderbilt University law professor who has studied medical boards. This is just gonna be a little freeze spray first. I visited Youngs clinic, but, through a staffer, he declined to speak with me. Naylor: (A long beat and a breath.) The men each contributed $40,000 to the endeavor. Though he was not an M.D., Young christened himself the Rock Doc.. (A long moment of music with no narration before it fades out. 0:04. Long after the criminal charges against him became known, many of Youngs patients and friends came to his defenseincluding some whom he had seemingly wronged. Three, two, one. The allegations against Young seemed to take a toll on him, though. Khazan: Her husband had severe dehydration and was suffering from a heat stroke. Yeah. Some sought counseling, slept under their beds, or carried guns. The Experiment is a co-production of The Atlantic and WNYC Studios. Naylor: They just immediately hit it off. But Young soon revealed a blustering personality that started to overwhelm the team project. This striking 6ft 3in person embodies kanji tattoos on his biceps, and the effortlessly cool personality will describe how one sees him. Even after this, she returned to Young as a patient. After PreventaGenix shut down, Young told his patients on Facebook that they could contact Reitz and Patels attorney to get their medical records. He would try to squeeze in even more patient visits each daysometimes well over 50, former employees sayand would either forget to document services or would document services he hadnt provided. Thirty minutes. And I remember texting him back, and I remember saying, Jeff, he is a grumpy, old, country man, and hes not going to be an easy patient, but something is terribly wrong. And he said, I got that covered too. So I get my husband up there. You may not like my tattoos. She said, He latches on to young single mothers, and he rushes in and wants toquote-unquotesave them.. Were going to take the worst of the worst. This requirement is waived, however, in cases where public health, safety, or welfare imperatively requires emergency action.). Jacksons cheeriness, though, is at odds with the populations somewhat grim physical health. You may not like me. (The background music shifts tone dramatically to a wispy, light, contemplative energy.). 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