I just didnt feel comfortable. You may not like what I stand for. He was found in his bedroom, where the ambulance service discovered an empty syringe under his pillow and empty pill bottles on his bedside table that had been filled that month. Sometimes he wore scrubs, but most of the time he had on jeans, scrub tops, and a rock T-shirt, and a doctors jacket. Thats the only way you can describe it. I expected to hear lots of horror stories of abuse and mistreatment. Young: Listen, I am for the patient. There is a friendliness, too, that one associates with the South. This is Aalto. Theres this moment in one of the videos that I keep thinking about: Young: (Over more pool filtration.) Thats not my fucking problem, all right? Though Young claimed that he also fired drug-seeking patients, Gutgsell testified in a deposition that he would meet some patients after hours and write them prescriptions anyway. Youngs devotees have maintained for years that he was a great man on a noble mission, and that people who spoke against him didnt understand his radical approach. The allegations against Young point toward an especially sordid type of abuse in which some doctors victimize patients twice: first by getting them addicted to drugs, and then by sexually exploiting them. Jeff gets his nick name "Rock Doc" from his loyal patients. Whatever the inspiration, his new persona was good for business. Young grew up in Bethel Springs, a 700-person village near Jackson. Tune in today! 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. But, in theory, there should have been a check on all this. The resulting videos are typical scenes from a medical practicepeople donning gloves, waiting in chairsspliced together over a heavy-metal soundtrack. They didnt play Stairway to Heaven or have Periscope accounts. Young: (Moaning.) (Soft percussive synthesizer music plays.). She would wake up to find that all her car doors had been opened overnight. He even convinced her to get weight-loss surgery. He didnt pull any punches, she said. Jackson, TN USA. She would get phone calls at her house, answer, and hear only strange whispers, she said in a court hearing. By the end of this hearing, you will be asking what on Earth took the medical board so long, Pennebaker, the prosecutor, said in court. You can all suck my d***. He made them feel comfortable in a way that no other doctor did. The resulting addictions were blamed on reckless patients, rather than the fundamental chemistry of the opioids themselves. Im Julia Longoria. After the raid, Young spent the night in jail on an outstanding warrant, and PreventaGenix closed soon after. 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. A Professional theme for architects, construction and interior designers Federal prosecutors who charged him in a massive opioid bust say he overprescribed painkillers, often for money, notoriety, and sexual favors.. Young: (Just after another person laughs.) They liked his plainspoken approach to medicine, a profession typically associated with jargon and elitism. (In response to a request for comment, a health-department spokesperson noted that, according to state law, the department cant suspend medical licenses without first giving practitioners the opportunity to demonstrate compliance regarding the allegations against them. Occupation (s) Guitarist. Khazan: And Christi also told me a very similar thing as the other patients I talked to: Shes had terrible experiences with other doctors. So what, I dont go get fucked up at the country club with the rest of the stiffs here in J-Town? (The music crescendos before playing out into the break. His lawyer also declined to answer any specific allegations. He was like a friend. Fullington, who was also let go, told me she got a threatening call from Young. Tennessees nursing board, the main agency that has power over nurse practitioners in the state, launched its investigation into Young within a year of PreventaGenix opening. But tonally, much of the footage betrays him. Its a shame, he told me, that Young got into so much legal trouble; think of all the people he might have helped. Through his attorney, he declined to comment on this and the other allegations in this story because of a gag order issued by the judge in the case.). They painted a picture of the kind of medical office where you might actually want to hang out. And that was not the case at all. Several people suggested suing for defamation a news station that reported on the incident. The next morning, the office manager, Kristie Gutgsell, would clean up after them. 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. He has been arrested several times, though not convicted, for assaulting women. Khazan: In 2016, Jeff tried to broadcast his world even more widely. But none of these barred the Rock Doc from getting drugs into the hands of patients. 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. Lets see here, shes 23, Young says. 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. Its heavy, and it loops. Trust me, I got people, he says to the camera. The week that followed Martin Luther King Jr.s assassination was revolutionaryso why was it nearly forgotten? In 2020, had he not been indicted, he would have been allowed to petition to have his prescribing privileges reinstated, as long as he agreed to extra monitoring. Years active. Some sought counseling, slept under their beds, or carried guns. Yeah. 1:32. Additional audio from Purdue Pharma, The Rock Doc TV Show, @JY2RocDoc, and Bat Pig Pictures. We wont know if Young is guilty of everything the government says he is, or how much additional time, if any, he will serve, until later this year. Similarly, Young appeared to get the benefit of the doubt from virtually everyone. His vision was, evidently, to one day launch a reality series of the same name. The clinic sat on a quiet road crammed with other medical practicesa sleep doctor, a dentist, a nephrologist, an orthodontisteach in its own . But he, uh He was true to himself; lets say that. He was like, No, we do Botox and stuff for people, and dah-dah-dah-dah. In 2018, a woman told police that Young put his hands down her pants during an office visit, but that apparently led to nothing. One patient she knew kept a cane in the trunk of her car and visited doctors offices with it in order to appear disabled so she could get more pills. Hows it going? Jeff immediately sees that he is inyou know, hes in pretty bad shape. He exhibited a certain tenderness as he filled syringes and sutured skin. Minutes after finishing the second drink, Stephanie fell face-first onto the floor. Some of Youngs dalliances with his patient-friends similarly took a dark turn. The Daily Beast Automated News Feed No Censorship, Just News. And the consequences might have gone beyond sexual abuse and addiction. In 2011, the couple got in a fight while visiting Panama City Beach, Florida, and it was determined that Young did throw, or shove, Mrs. Young from the bed to the floor, the police report reads. Hey! Am I a misogynist, or do women just like rough sex? Young asks himself in one video. Young had an active channel on Periscope, where he and Phillips drank and waxed philosophical. And no education whatsoever, Phillips jokes. (Four years later, the health department received a complaint about this testosterone sideline, but the complaint was never assigned to an investigator, according to Pickering.) His followers across social-media accounts numbered in the low thousandshigher than a casual users, but a trifle compared with even a C-list celebritys fan base. (Green, who has since cut ties with Young, would not comment on this when I reached him, but he told the Sun that he asked another officer to look up the information.). Khazan: LaRhonda Scott Deberry is a 54-year-old former teacher who lives in Memphis. The grosser side. Khazan: The Rock Doc, Jeff Young, has been in jail for almost two years, awaiting trial. RockDocTV Show. One former employee told me its not clear whether Young was exchanging prescriptions for sex or just giving his many girlfriends the medications they asked for. But she also told me the story of her ex-husband. This striking 6ft 3in person embodies kanji tattoos on his biceps, and the effortlessly cool personality will describe how one sees him. She wasnt the only patient to stick by him. Then it fades out.). 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. Jackson nurse practitioner Jeffrey Young will await his opioid trafficking trial in jail, an appeals court decided Thursday. Khazan: In the pilot, he presents himself as more of a friend than a medical professional. He refilled MYs prescriptions for Percocet and Valium, and also prescribed him hydrocodone. Hes a great doctor and never has he acted any way towards me but professional! one woman wrote. The first move of any significant consequence for Young came in early 2017, when the DEA raided the clinic. Khazan: I talked to many of Jeffs patients. After PreventaGenix shut down, Young told his patients on Facebook that they could contact Reitz and Patels attorney to get their medical records. The scenes are meant to serve as a testament to the effectiveness of Youngs work hard, play harder ethos. On Instagram, photos tagged #preventagenix show Young on a motorcycle, surrounded by women. And you can kind of look at it like locker-room talk . 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. I cant wait to start being your patient again, one woman wrote. I mean, you wouldve thought they were giving away meds for free, to be honest. Jacksons cheeriness, though, is at odds with the populations somewhat grim physical health. The daughter, Melody, actually works in her dad's vet clinic. ), (What sounds like road noise plays in the background of a Periscope clip. I had a lot of Why on earth? questions, the Atlantic reporter Olga Khazan says. (A meandering guitar melody enters the background. From that day on, he saw him for everything. 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.). So, no, I cant say that. the rock doc' jeff young. [A moment of indistinct crosstalk.] Purdue ad doctor: These drugswhich, I repeat, are our best, strongest pain medicationsshould be used much more than they are for patients in pain. 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. Khazan: Not long after Jeff opened Preventagenix, the Tennessee nursing board started to investigate him for prescribing high doses of opioids to his patients, even when he didnt have a good medical reason. An obese man explains that Young helped him with his swollen leg. Hed also given her tips on how to eat better and how to lose weight. Listen to the trailer for Holy Week. Longoria: And one of those worst of the worst providers stood out from the others. In recent years, the Justice Department has started coming for unscrupulous doctors and pharmacists, too. They learned to ignore it. Early in the epidemic, Purdue gave doctors OxyContin fishing hats and swing-music CDs to encourage them to prescribe more of the drug. Purdue ad doctor: They dont wear out. A woman I spoke with who has worked for seven doctors offices in the area estimates that about three-quarters of medical visits there result in an opioid prescription. During one club night, Young bought Stephanie two drinks and his friends handed them to her. a dangerous combination of an opioid, a benzodiazepine, and a muscle relaxant. The judge denied this request, in part because, he wrote, Young has chosen to not wear a mask or practice social distancing consistently in jail., In September, Gutgsell, Youngs former office manager, pleaded guilty to federal charges for her involvement in prescribing opioids without a legitimate medical purpose.*. Scott Deberry: I just didnt like all the bickering on social media and in that newspaper. 14:46. The cause of death, according to the letter, was a probable cardiac event due to polypharmacy, or the simultaneous use of multiple drugs.. Thats okay. On April 17, 2019, officials swept through Appalachia, charging 53 medical professionals, including doctors, nurses, and pharmacists. American doctors went on to prescribe opioids at much higher rates than their counterparts in other countries. Toward the end of PreventaGenix, the nurse practitioner so many people had praised deteriorated, according to former employees. Patel left soon after. (The case did not result in a conviction.) It surprised her, but Jeff was attuned to all that. I said, um, So what are yall doing after-hour? Young was a people pleaser, as one former employee described him. Im like, Im as outspoken as he is. In 2014, Jeff started seeing a patient with the initials M.Y. The waiting room often overflowed with patients. Kevin: Jeff and I are full of antics. I am a, uh, nurse practitioner. All of his patients I saw when I would come would be all white. She told me that Jeff took her pain seriously. 2,760 Followers, 1,655 Following, 2,046 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Jeff Young II (JY2) #RockDoc (@jeffyoungii) Khazan: Ive talked to a lot of patients over the years who feel very uncomfortable around their doctors. Purdue voice-over: Often, it will be an opioid medication. The clinics aim would be to halt the parade of miseriesheart attacks, early deaths, hospital billsbrought on by the obesity epidemic. Naylor: I felt like he was being treated unfairlythat maybe he had even been set up. Im too good for you because I got this money, or whatever. Always have been for the patient. 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. This social-media stardom appears to have helped inoculate him against concerns that his loose approach to medicine could harm anyone. Young: Even get all gussied up for tonight. (Topix has since been shut down.) ET on January 28, 2021. Otherwise, fledgling practices, in particular, risk losing patients. Im in the middle of a life-saving procedure here. JACKSON, Tenn. The end is nowhere close for three medical professionals charged in a federal opioid crackdown earlier this year. The agency also searched Youngs cellphone. Thats the big joke. And even then, I didnt want to hear it. (Ringing leads into a soft, humming organ song.). The half-dozen former patients who did agree to talk with me were mostly people who wanted to defend Jeff. Rumors started to spread in town that strange things were going on in Jeffs office. 0:04. The trial for "Rock Doc" Jeffrey Young, the infamous nurse practitioner from Jackson who was indicted in 2019 on drug trafficking charges and accused of . Every single time I went to that doctor and I left, Stairway to Heaven played. Use the hashtag #TheExperimentPodcast, or write to us at theexperiment@theatlantic.com. Lots of people refused to talk to me because they fear Young, but many others refused because they love him. Some of the pills had been prescribed by Young. Longoria: The result is that more than 450,000 people are dead from overdose in the last 20 years. His case before the nursing board stalled for two more years. Young did seem to be famous enough in Jackson, however, to reinforce his own grand vision of himself. PreventaGenix, with its Doric columns and grand portico, appeared to preside over the rest. LaRhonda Scott Deberry: When I first met him, I thought maybe he was prejudiced. But it seemed like she wasnt the only one getting pain meds from the Rock Doc. Its a small town; people talk. Heres what I can tell you about the JY2, all right? Young and the others were among dozens of doctors, nurses, and pharmacists arrested across seven states, targets in the nations largest takedown of medical providers related to prescription opioids. Khazan: In his Periscope videos, Jeff insisted it was all fun and games, and people were just criticizing him because of his style. I cant say for sure what the right course of treatment for LaRhonda was, and where opioids fit into that. But when he suggested it the way he did, I took it seriously. He would sometimes brag about having sex on his lunch break, sharing with his staff pictures of his conquests, three employees said. Patients would spend an hour or two in the waiting room, only to get a rushed exam and prescription. Yes. Not that half of the, you know powers that be are on some sort of whatever. But Young was eager to let the world know that he was no typical nurse practitioner. Music by Parish Council (Dabbles), water feature (ariel), Arabian Prince in a UK World (The Feeling of Being on a Diet), Keyboard (Being There and My Atelier), and Column (The Art of Fun (Raj) and Sensuela), provided by Tasty Morsels. had lower back pain and complained of numbness in his left arm. A new court filing, first reported by The Tennessean last week, portrays the Rock Doc as a menacing figure at the intersection of the opioid crisis and the #MeToo movement. One person with knowledge of the case gave me a list of several women who, the person believed, were having sex with Young in exchange for drugs. I dont wear underwear. Young would continue to prescribe drugs there for two more years. Scott Deberry: Everyone in his office was all white. One January morning, officers swarmed the road outside the PreventaGenix building, guns drawn. Even if the treatment doesnt work, it feels good to be listened to when youre used to being ignored. Kevin: (In a Periscope video.) Throughout the opioid epidemic, a distressing number of doctors have seen a perverse opportunity in Americans suffering. An active and fun show following the life of FNP Jeff Young II at work and his life after work. The men each contributed $40,000 to the endeavor. Youngs case provides a rare glimpse into the ways patients wind up addicted to the powerful painkillers fueling the national opioid epidemic. Naylor: (A sharp inhale.) As Young collected more tattoos and befriended more local bands, he began to attract a certain clientele. Calles: Yes. As the court spent two days scrutinizing his years of alleged misdeeds, he sat mostly silently. The entire epidemic has been an unending story of doctors, pharmaceutical executives, and public officials blithely ignoring signs of danger. We got a very, uh, important (Fades under.). She became his patient around 2016. The camera follows Young as he treats patients, talks on a local radio station, dances with women at a club, and brags about drinking. Rather than suffer any real consequences for his allegedly reckless prescribing, Young continued to work as a medical provider for years. They thought I was basically lazy and just wanted to have pain pills, just for whatever reason. A woman Ill call Stephanie developed a friendship with Young a few years ago when she was regularly seeing him for swelling in her throat. Longoria: And what part of the crisis were you most focused on? November 7, 2018, marked the beginning of legal repercussions for Young. 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. Mellow and slow, it moves under the narration the way water moves through a stream.). They dont want to touch you unless they have to touch you. (The DEA declined to comment on Youngs case for this story.) Country music lyrics, guitar tabs/tablatures, chords source #1. You can find Olgas written reporting on the Rock Doc at our website: http://www.theatlantic.com/experiment. Oh, look, I got a new haircut today (Fades under.). He may have that, but hes not Hes down to earth. What a great, great, great, great song! In his early adulthood, he was a straitlaced young Republican who had short hair and wore a tie much of the time, one of his former co-workers told me. His black shirt collar didnt quite hide the tattoos on the back of his neck. This episode was reported by Olga Khazan and produced by Alvin Melathe. The allegations against Young seemed to take a toll on him, though. One of his patients, Helena Louvaris, told me that Young saved her life by putting her on a diet plan. Moreover, throwing some glimpse of lights to his personal life, Dr. Jeff is a happily married man. Health care is one of the Jackson areas most important industries, and West Tennessee Healthcare, which once employed Young, is the largest employer in the county. This ingratiating tendency allegedly extended to handing out prescriptions. Because he prescribed my opiates, and I took them as prescribed, and I had no problems with it. At this point, the people of Jackson knew the full extent of officials suspicions about Young. Alperovichs lawyer declined to comment.). On my trip, I strolled by a glass case near the federal courthouse that held a large Bible opened to the Gospel of John. A staffer, who declined to talk on the record, asked me why I was writing about him. Young was indicted on drug-trafficking charges in April 2019. Every time. Khazan: But the pilot also showed the other side of Jeff. In March 2019, the health department received a complaint that Young had inappropriate sexual contact with patients, and sent him a letter of warning without disciplining him. His case offers a unique look at the opioid crisis. Longoria: Pharmaceutical companies marketed these drugs aggressively to doctors. Some speculated that it could have been drugs, alcohol, the prospect of fame, a divorce from his second wife the year after PreventaGenix launched, or a combination of all of them. States largely rely on medical boards to regulate practitioners, but these entities have a reputation for leniency. Even after this, she returned to Young as a patient. (The music changes tone, becoming a little more up-tempo and treble-heavy.). To get from pharma lab to medicine cabinet, the drug needed to pass through one of the most sacred spaces in America. At first, Young seemed to Reitz like an affable, outgoing dad who loved rock and practiced medicine. He helped her a lot with her pain. Music by Tasty Morsels and Nelson Nance. But they helped create the opioid crisis all the same. Theres clear evidence that opioid manufacturers knew the drugs were addictive, yet they marketed them aggressively anyway. Kevin: And were going to ask our friendsour warriors out thereto put these folks in their place, because, you know, the Golden Rule. Sometimes the two men would fight, and broken glass would litter the floor. I am very nervous about it, she replied. every time. Obesity and diabetes are rampant; so is chronic pain. I am sick of people only judging you by what you do in your personal life, one woman wrote on his Facebook page in September 2016, when Young was charged with assault after a woman claimed that he had screamed at her in the parking lot of his office. The nurse practitioner Jeffrey Young produced a reality-TV pilot in which he branded himself "the Rock Doc., The week that followed Martin Luther King Jr.s assassination was revolutionaryso why was it nearly forgotten? They married in 2014 and lived right above his vet clinic in Denver. You may not like my rock and roll. Despite some patients praise for Young, the evidence that he routinely walked far over that line remains alarming. Jeff didnt monitor M.Y.s use, or talk to him about the danger of combining drugs. Naylor: And I remember him saying, Bring him to the office. Young cries at his sons fifth-grade graduation, then explains that hes so emotional because his nurses are having their periods. Many medical providers are small-business owners who operate with limited oversight from authorities. Heres what I can tell you. Young benefited from an almost reflexive societal trust in the medical profession. He pleaded not guilty to the charges, and is currently in jail awaiting trial. Longoria: This week, Olga Khazan peers into an internet portal to try to find one answer to how on earth we found ourselves in an opioid crisis. I swear he didnt look at my leg for 30 seconds, and he told me exactly what it was, he says. Nurses are consistently rated higher in honesty and ethics than all other professions that Gallup asks about, by a wide margin, the polling firm said in a January 2020 survey. Dr. Jeff is married to Petra Mickova Petra though she is his second wife. And whats remarkable about the Rock Doc is that he streamed his private interactions with patients online. Khazan: So, like, that doctor-patient interaction and how the opioids actually got prescribed. Whether or not Young is convicted, the perverse incentives for doctors to see patients for short visits and to prescribe too many unnecessary drugs will remain. They would shut off the power so they had an excuse to close the clinic on those days. 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. Young grabs them and takes a big whiff. 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. 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. 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