Dan Reaves, a local radio host on whose show Young occasionally appeared as part of a marketing plan, described Young as medically gifted. This is The Experiment, a show about our unfinished country. States largely rely on medical boards to regulate practitioners, but these entities have a reputation for leniency. Khazan: LaRhonda Scott Deberry is a 54-year-old former teacher who lives in Memphis. Khazan: So Ive written a million stories about this. They learned to ignore it. 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. 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. So hes a little out there. So you got to be a good judge of character. But maybe, just maybe, he showed too much. Scott Deberry: You go to the doctor, and you tell them whats wrong with you, and they look at you like, Oh, its nothing. 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. Jeff refilled M.Y.s prescriptions for Percocet and Valium and gave him a new one for hydrocodone. There was no statement even made to the Feds. Fullington, who was also let go, told me she got a threatening call from Young. Later that month, M.Y. Naylor: They just immediately hit it off. The opioid epidemicwhich appears to only be getting worsehas made clear that wherever pain exists in America, grifters will follow. Scott Deberry: I just didnt like all the bickering on social media and in that newspaper. I had had back surgery, and I really had real problems that no one wanted to listen to me about. Young: Listen, I am for the patient. Khazan: LeAnn Naylor was the secretary for the mayor of Jackson when she started seeing Jeff as a patient. I didnt know that. He soon opened a new clinic, which he called GeneXis Health. There is a friendliness, too, that one associates with the South. He may have that, but hes not Hes down to earth. Rudins lawyer did not respond to a request for comment. 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. We got a very, uh, important (Fades under.). Young appeared to operate more subtly. This is just gonna be a little freeze spray first. PreventaGenix, with its Doric columns and grand portico, appeared to preside over the rest. Youngs case provides a rare glimpse into the ways patients wind up addicted to the powerful painkillers fueling the national opioid epidemic. Young: (Serious, and a little angry.) Young seemed to have been expecting them. I said, um, So what are yall doing after-hour? Throughout the opioid epidemic, a distressing number of doctors have seen a perverse opportunity in Americans suffering. MY came to PreventaGenix complaining of lower-back pain and numbness in his left arm, and asked for refills of pain medications. For the occasion of his detention hearing, Young wore a cerulean suit and a comb-over. Youngs pursuit of fame culminated in his attempt to launch the Rock Doc television show. (The music crescendos before playing out into the break. An active and fun show following the life of FNP Jeff Young II at work and his life after work. To one patient, who he prescribed hydrocodone, amphetamines, and fentanyl, he said, I accept all insurance. 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. Yeah, thats prettythats very distressing. I am a, uh, nurse practitioner. So, no, I cant say that. The week that followed Martin Luther King Jr.s assassination was revolutionaryso why was it nearly forgotten? And were gonna send a message. They called it the single largest crackdown on prescription opioids in history. Hes prescribing drugs that people want, another man added. Every time. Jeff wanted what was best for his patient. (Topix has since been shut down.) Scott Deberry: Kinda made it start seeming like he was unprofessional. The clinic mostly offered cosmetic treatments, and it was located in a strip mall in a more industrial part of town, next to a chiropractor and a place called Genes Tire & Wrecker. You need to be a certain kind of person to want a reality-TV show about yourself. One of them was that I had the story all wrong. 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. Stephanie would accompany him to different clubs in the area, and wherever he went, she said, he was surrounded by hired bodyguards and friends she called bouncers, who were around for the times when he drank too much or flirted with women and got into fights with their boyfriends. Khazan: Tanya had a different theory about where all the criticism was actually coming from. Similarly, Young appeared to get the benefit of the doubt from virtually everyone. During one club night, Young bought Stephanie two drinks and his friends handed them to her. (Fades under.). Young would continue to prescribe drugs there for two more years. The lack of oversight in the Young case is in keeping with practices seen throughout the opioid crisis. 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. He has pleaded not guilty to all the charges against him. The next morning, the office manager, Kristie Gutgsell, would clean up after them. Lets see here, shes 23, Young says. was found dead of an apparent overdose. Young and Phillips, both longtime musicians, reveal that theyre working on some rap songs about Youngs haters, then ponder how to do gang signs. When the local news station, WBBJ, posted a story about Youngs case on Facebook, the usual chorus of defenders raised their voices. Rumors started to spread in town that strange things were going on in Jeffs office. I have found accounts of at least 40 other medical providers in the country who have been accused of exchanging sex for addictive drugs. 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 . Calles: I really am so thankful that he suggested that to me, because if he hadnt have, I probably wouldve never done it, because I wouldnt take anybody else seriously enough to even think about doing it. Young: Hi, my name is Jeff Young. They dont want to touch you unless they have to touch you. The camera follows Young as he treats patients, talks on a local radio station, dances with women at a club, and brags about drinking. (Droning music, reflective and cool, plays.). 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. 0:04. (Stephanie asked me to use a pseudonym for her because she doesnt want her name associated with the case.) Hey, are you paying attention? 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. Federal prosecutors say his help often amounted to dealing drugs for sex. Thrash metal, heavy metal, speed metal, blues, classical. Hes so cute thats my brother and my best friend, Young says, giving Phillips a gentle kiss. 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. LeAnn Naylor: I have not had a lot of positive interactions with doctors. I asked to speak with him for this story, but because of a gag order on the case, his lawyer declined interviews with me. When I visited the clinic shortly before the hearing, Young had just finished up with a patient. You could see, almost, when you were talking to him, he was listeningand he was thumping that pen to the beat of the music. And Jeff, sitting at the center of it, covered in tattooshe had a sort of unlikely charisma too. 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.*. Why would he do this? Naylor: (A long beat and a breath.) At the same time, building himself up as a renegade nurse practitioner seems to have allowed Young to sweep his faults under the rug of unconventionality. Im in the middle of a life-saving procedure here. For the cosmetically minded, he hosted alcohol-fueled Botox parties. I had a lot of Why on earth? questions, the Atlantic reporter Olga Khazan says. But the board has a history of letting suspicious providers go on practicing for years. 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. 0:06. On it, they found evidence of Young having sex with many different women, one of whom appeared to be motionless and had her eyes closed, a DEA agent testified later. Yes. Khazan: Because I couldnt talk to Jeff, Ive spent more hours than I want to admit combing through his Periscope videos, trying to understand this man. (The background music shifts tone dramatically to a wispy, light, contemplative energy.). American doctors went on to prescribe opioids at much higher rates than their counterparts in other countries. But you know what? Khazan: He had an account on Periscope, the live-streaming site. Through his lawyer, Michael R. Working, Phillips did not return several requests for comment. Aggressive marketing is one piece of it. She once saw someone running across her yard into the woods. Young: (Over hard-rock music.) He gave Young total control over what was recorded. Young began arriving at the clinic smelling rancid, with greasy hair, and the clinics money problems mounted. Khazan: LaRhonda was skepticalbut she was also dealing with a lot of pain. Yall partying in the office? [Chuckles.] Furthermore, Dr. Young along with his wife and daughter Melody works at his clinic. Youre just probably not feeling good. But they never believed us. Naylor: And I remember him saying, Bring him to the office. Khazan: There was this really big series of indictments that came down in 2019 where the federal government said, You know what? Actually very nice, yeah. Khazan: Do you remember what kind of music was playing? The clinic sat on a quiet road crammed with other medical practicesa sleep doctor, a dentist, a nephrologist, an orthodontisteach in its own . Rather than suffer any real consequences for his allegedly reckless prescribing, Young continued to work as a medical provider for years. His black shirt collar didnt quite hide the tattoos on the back of his neck. 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.). PreventaGenix had a back door, and before long employees started noticing that some female patients would come in through it and go directly to Youngs office. (Plucky yet funky music plays. He messaged at least five female patients about sex and filling prescriptions, prosecutors would later say, detailing the anonymized encounters in court. 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. But none of these barred the Rock Doc from getting drugs into the hands of patients. But Young soon revealed a blustering personality that started to overwhelm the team project. Once his colleagues were out of the business, Young began crafting a persona based around rock music and hard living. (A long beat of music. As so often happens with irresponsible medical providers, Youngs popularity in the communityalong with an indifferent, slow-moving bureaucracyallowed him to operate for half a decade despite initial warning signs and then multiple arrests and investigations. Additional audio from Purdue Pharma, The Rock Doc TV Show, @JY2RocDoc, and Bat Pig Pictures. The next year, Jeff prescribed M.Y. The men each contributed $40,000 to the endeavor. He refilled MYs prescriptions for Percocet and Valium, and also prescribed him hydrocodone. Theres actually a diagnosis called white-coat hypertension. Its when your blood pressure spikes in a doctors office because the whole experience is nerve-racking. He pleaded not guilty to the charges, and is currently in jail awaiting trial. Kevin: And were going to ask our friendsour warriors out thereto put these folks in their place, because, you know, the Golden Rule. Theres this moment in one of the videos that I keep thinking about: Young: (Over more pool filtration.) #coffeeplease #noontime #rockrageradio www.rockrageradio.com Former employees speculated that he met the women in bars. #saturdays at noon est to hear #nikkidarling chat with the #RockDoc Jeff Young II #musicmeetmedicine Starts at 12pm est. November 7, 2018, marked the beginning of legal repercussions for Young. But she also told me the story of her ex-husband. The first move of any significant consequence for Young came in early 2017, when the DEA raided the clinic. As Young collected more tattoos and befriended more local bands, he began to attract a certain clientele. Fact-check by Michelle Ciarrocca and Jack Segelstein. Khazan: LeAnns story was similar to Tanyas and LaRhondas and Christis. 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.). People who criticized Young swiftly became his enemies. The scenes are meant to serve as a testament to the effectiveness of Youngs work hard, play harder ethos. Calles: Yes. Before long, the three men hatched a plan to found a network of health clinics that would check patients cholesterol levels and offer diet and exercise advice. You can find Olgas written reporting on the Rock Doc at our website: http://www.theatlantic.com/experiment. You may not like me. (Somber, reflective droning notes play up. At least 50 women are thought to have come to the clinic to have sex with Young, some of them allegedly doing so in exchange for drugs, according to court testimony. Visit our website terms of use at www.wnyc.org for further information. No one else seemed capable of treating all her problemsthroat swelling, high blood pressure, attention issues. Young: That was what Im going to say. I just didnt feel comfortable. Jackson, TN USA. In fact, he avoided doctors at all costs. Officials were well aware of the allegations surrounding him over this period: The states health department had received at least 13 complaints about Young since 2015. I am very nervous about it, she replied. And, to be honest, most of the time when you see a white male with a lot of tattoos, theyre usually not someone that hangs around with people of different races. 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. 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. In February 2016, he texted one of his opioid patients, a police officer named Jay Green. Youngs second marriage was already in trouble by the time PreventaGenix launched, and after his divorce he quickly found new girlfriends. 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. He was like, No, we do Botox and stuff for people, and dah-dah-dah-dah. Many people in Jackson seemed to see themselves in Young. His lawyer also declined to answer any specific allegations. And doctorswho work in what is, after all, a service professionsometimes feel that its easier to pacify the patient than to push back. In the past five years, at least 40 medical providers nationwide have been accused of exchanging sex for addictive drugs. He tried to ignore it, but when he woke up the next morning, LeAnn noticed he still looked really bad. Jacksons cheeriness, though, is at odds with the populations somewhat grim physical health. He was like a friend. Two bouncers made sure she got home, but when she woke up in bed the next morning, her eyes were black, her nose was broken, and her mouth was bleeding. And I was like, My mind is blown. 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. Occasionally he would glare at his ex-wife Dawn, who was in the gallery. 14:46. In July 2016, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation began looking into allegations that Young was overprescribing opioids. I just asked him. The men each contributed $40,000 to the endeavor. Nurse practitioners have played a key role in Tennessees opioid epidemic. Rock Doc pilot testimonial: (Over heavy rock music.) The Daily Beast Automated News Feed No Censorship, Just News. ), (The intro to a rock song plays, with a driving, pulsing beat. Christi Calles: His doctors office was just rocked out. Will be glad to take the balance out of your ass. He asked another patient, to whom he prescribed the opioid hydrocodone, to come in for a checkup the following day and wear a short skirt and no panties., Young was sometimes even more direct. The resulting videos are typical scenes from a medical practicepeople donning gloves, waiting in chairsspliced together over a heavy-metal soundtrack. They just, like, keep their distance from you. Whats up kids? She would wake up to find that all her car doors had been opened overnight. And Im like, Oh. [A beat.] On April 17, 2019, officials swept through Appalachia, charging 53 medical professionals, including doctors, nurses, and pharmacists. However, many of Youngs online supporters have remained loyal. Kevin: (In a Periscope video.) Why would you go to this doctor? Young wanted information about one of his enemies. Jeffrey " Jeff " Young (born March 31, 1962) is an American guitarist. (The music opens up into a technologic rainforest as synthesizers mimic birdsong.). (Soft percussive synthesizer music plays.). Purdue Pharma ad voice-over: Once youve found the right doctor and have told him or her about your pain, dont be afraid to take what they give you. 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. 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. He did know exactly what to talk to him about to make him feel at ease, and he impressed that grumpy old man so much that that was his primary-care doctor and the only doctor he would see. Longoria: There are many pieces to the puzzle of how opioids found their way into so many medicine cabinets. Women were drawn to Young; he had a big house and was the first to buy everyones drink. (Fades under.). Tanya Ballard: I think people are Just didnt like Jeff. He would sometimes brag about having sex on his lunch break, sharing with his staff pictures of his conquests, three employees said. At first, Young seemed to Reitz like an affable, outgoing dad who loved rock and practiced medicine. 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. The Tennessee Department of Health will not release audio recordings from a state investigation of "Rock Doc" Jeffrey W. Young II, a nurse practitioner who was allowed to stay in business . Be part of The Experiment. On Instagram, photos tagged #preventagenix show Young on a motorcycle, surrounded by women. Doctors, in theory, would only prescribe to people who needed the drugs and would monitor patients so they wouldnt get addicted. Young cared for all kinds of people, some of whom didnt have money or health insurance. Oh, look, I got a new haircut today (Fades under.). His case offers a unique look at the opioid crisis. Young cries at his sons fifth-grade graduation, then explains that hes so emotional because his nurses are having their periods. Rather than call for help, Young walked away and left me on the ground, she told me. Its light and upbeat.). a dangerous combination of an opioid, a benzodiazepine, and a muscle relaxant. Its a shame, he told me, that Young got into so much legal trouble; think of all the people he might have helped. Khazan: Jeff was working as a nurse practitioner at a clinic called Preventagenix in Jackson, Tennessee. 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. (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. Jeff gets his nick name "Rock Doc" from his loyal patients. Youngs story raises the question of where care crosses into harm. Jeff immediately sees that he is inyou know, hes in pretty bad shape. Some of Youngs dalliances with his patient-friends similarly took a dark turn. The half-dozen former patients who did agree to talk with me were mostly people who wanted to defend Jeff. 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. 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. And that was not the case at all. Mellow and slow, it moves under the narration the way water moves through a stream.). Young grabs them and takes a big whiff. Still, the citys southernness peeks through. Occupation (s) Guitarist. He tied the knot with his beautiful wife Dr. Petra. This distinction is important, because while nurse practitioners are functioning in the same capacity as physiciansordering and interpreting When you got all kinds of money, said Jon Benjamin Sharp, a local musician who used to see Young around town, you got all kinds of friends. (Sharp made clear that he himself wasnt a fan of Youngs.) Khazan: The way I first got to know Jeff Young was through videos he posted online. Young had an active channel on Periscope, where he and Phillips drank and waxed philosophical. Look at me! Calles: And I mean, he didnt dress like your average doctor. Trust me, I got people, he says to the camera. Supposedly candid confessions from Young about his life are interspersed with complimentary interviews with patients. Because he prescribed my opiates, and I took them as prescribed, and I had no problems with it. It was just rocked out. Tune in today! But the more time I spent thinking about it, the more I started to realize that Jeff has a point. Thats very distressing Yeah, Im shocked, you know? Calles: I dont know. All rights reserved. Khazan: But she did remember this one hint shed had that something might be wrong in Jeffs office. 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? Years before the launch of PreventaGenix, Young had already been accused of abusing his nurse-practitioner license. They liked his plainspoken approach to medicine, a profession typically associated with jargon and elitism. [Khazan laughs, then Calles emphasizes each word that follows.] Eventually Shirley Pickering, the nursing-board investigator who was looking into the allegations against Young, also grew terrified of him. Another compared Young to a brother and called my reporting disrespectful.. MY died on August 25, 2015, from an apparent drug overdose. (Dawn did not press charges at the time, and she declined to speak with me for this story.). Apparently she felt strongly enough about it that he wouldnt leave her alone if she went to see him. Khazan: And Christi also told me a very similar thing as the other patients I talked to: Shes had terrible experiences with other doctors. 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? Khazan: The first time I watched this video, I just heard Jeff making excuses. 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. Federal prosecutors who charged him in a massive opioid bust say he overprescribed painkillers, often for "money, notoriety, and sexual favors." Young's case provides a rare gl About four years after its investigation began, the nursing board finally held a hearing to consider his fate. LaRhonda Scott Deberry: When I first met him, I thought maybe he was prejudiced. 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