For the cosmetically minded, he hosted alcohol-fueled Botox parties. Khazan: A lot of them, unfortunately, went with it. Lots of people refused to talk to me because they fear Young, but many others refused because they love him. 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. M.Y. Khazan: Do you feel like Jeff has done more harm than good? 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.). FNP Jeff Young Jr. shares his life with his fans and promotes a healthy and fun lifestyle to make you "young" at heart! [Khazan laughs, then Calles emphasizes each word that follows.] I cant say for sure what the right course of treatment for LaRhonda was, and where opioids fit into that. 1:07. Some of his patients were police officers whom he would occasionally ask for favors. Ultimately, what hastened Youngs downfall is that some of the female patients asking him for drugs were undercover officers. I said, um, So what are yall doing after-hour? Once again, there was an outpouring of support. Khazan: When Jeffs indictment became public, LeAnnlike many of his former patientswas suspicious at first. When I visited the clinic shortly before the hearing, Young had just finished up with a patient. I tried to reach out to women who Jeff was rumored to have exchanged drugs for sex with, but none of them wanted to talk on the record. The whole thing was Very Online. Thank you for listening. In one post, tagged with American holocaust, he writes, I have always been a survivor and have scars of significance to symbolize thus, and this is where they have underestimated me and my resolve., In March 2020, after the coronavirus pandemic broke out, Young petitioned the court to be released to house arrest because he was on immunosuppressive drugs for a kidney transplant he had years ago and was concerned about the risk of complications from COVID-19. He would sometimes brag about having sex on his lunch break, sharing with his staff pictures of his conquests, three employees said. Federal prosecutors say his help often amounted to dealing drugs for sex. So, uh, here we are, sitting by the pool. They are often too under-resourced and understaffed to keep a watchful eye on all medical providers. The next year, Jeff prescribed M.Y. Khazan: The videos were sarcastic and loose, intimate in their own bizarre way. His case offers a unique look at the opioid crisis. Khazan: But the pilot also showed the other side of Jeff. (The music changes tone, becoming a little more up-tempo and treble-heavy.). 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. His small fiefdom of followers created a mini echo chamber, feeding back approval and encouragement. And hed stream from inside the clinic sometimes. Patients would spend an hour or two in the waiting room, only to get a rushed exam and prescription. 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. Additional audio from Purdue Pharma, The Rock Doc TV Show, @JY2RocDoc, and Bat Pig Pictures. (Young has pleaded not guilty to all charges. The week that followed Martin Luther King Jr.s assassination was revolutionaryso why was it nearly forgotten? Unnamed guest: I cant believe he stabbed himself (Fades under.). 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. Minutes after finishing the second drink, Stephanie fell face-first onto the floor. All of them said that they didnt think Jeff sexually abused them. You can find Olgas written reporting on the Rock Doc at our website: http://www.theatlantic.com/experiment. LeAnn Naylor: I have not had a lot of positive interactions with doctors. He has three children, two sons, and a daughter, from his first marriage. Around 2013, Young allegedly prescribed hydrocodone, a benzodiazepine, and Adderall for a patient whose visits he described as a concierge-type thing, Pickering said in court. They didnt drop F-bombs or smell womens underwear online. 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. 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. 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. We cant live if hes out, she said. His lawyer also declined to answer any specific allegations. (A long beat of music. How was a nurse practitioner whose behavior was so outrageous allowed to treat patients for so long? I dont I dont even know what to say. Jeffrey " Jeff " Young (born March 31, 1962) is an American guitarist. He raises a glass filled with red wine, as if in a toast. In 2016, Young, who was 42 at the time, invited a cameraman to shoot a pilot episode about his life as a nurse practitioner in Jackson, Tennessee. The week that followed Martin Luther King Jr.s assassination was revolutionaryso why was it nearly forgotten? After the hearing, Young was jailed pending his trial, which is currently scheduled to be held this spring. 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. His lawyer also declined to answer any specific allegations. To deal with the latter, the city, like so many others in America, has become ever more reliant on opioids. Julia Longoria: Over 20 years ago, pharmaceutical companies began to market the use of a magical pill. Multiple surveys show that people tend to trust health-care workers more than they trust many other professionals, including police officers and clergy members. 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. [A moment of indistinct crosstalk.] Khazan: The one that caught my eye was this guy named Jeff Young, a nurse practitioner who called himself the Rock Doc, quote-unquote. So hes a little out there. Despite some patients praise for Young, the evidence that he routinely walked far over that line remains alarming. MY died on August 25, 2015, from an apparent drug overdose. 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. It really meant a lot to me. On Instagram, photos tagged #preventagenix show Young on a motorcycle, surrounded by women. 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. Sound design by David Herman. (Somber, reflective droning notes play up. 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. Young: That was what Im going to say. Calles: I mean, you have killersmurderers, I meanthat have not been in jail this long. 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. Young, 43, a Tennessee nurse practitioner who called himself 'Rock Doc' and once piloted . At first, Young seemed to Reitz like an affable, outgoing dad who loved rock and practiced medicine. Jeffrey Youngs patients say he helped them like nobody else could, but prosecutors indicted him following a huge painkiller bust. Young: Hi, my name is Jeff Young. JACKSON, Tenn. The end is nowhere close for three medical professionals charged in a federal opioid crackdown earlier this year. Why didnt anyone try to put a stop to this? I just had a lot of questions about how could this happen, you know? If a patient would text him a compliment, he would blast it all over Facebook, one former employee told me. Jackson nurse-practitioner Jeffrey Young, known as the "Rock Doc," was released on bond and will be allowed to continue treating patients, a federal judge ruled Thursday. The waiting room often overflowed with patients. Actually very nice, yeah. 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. But it played [Emphasizing.] His vision was, evidently, to one day launch a reality series of the same name. Khazan: I started calling up former patients to try to understand the relationship Jeff had with them, and the appeal of this whole Rock Doc thing. Many medical providers are small-business owners who operate with limited oversight from authorities. The story of how that doctor-patient communication broke downhundreds of thousands of timesis what Olga wanted to understand. (Droning music, reflective and cool, plays.). Calles: And I mean, he didnt dress like your average doctor. Throughout Youngs year-long treatment of MY, Young failed to conduct pill counts, consult a state database meant to monitor the dispensing of controlled substances, and discuss with MY the risks of combining these drugs, according to the document. Will be glad to take the balance out of your ass. To another, Jeff asked, You want to come by for a checkup tomorrow? Nurse practitioners have played a key role in Tennessees opioid epidemic. Khazan: The way I first got to know Jeff Young was through videos he posted online. But none of these barred the Rock Doc from getting drugs into the hands of patients. Khazan: The Rock Doc, Jeff Young, has been in jail for almost two years, awaiting trial. 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. Its light and upbeat.). (A shudder, a gasp, then clapping and bubbling evolve into a background track.). 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. I have found accounts of at least 40 other medical providers in the country who have been accused of exchanging sex for addictive drugs. The feds say Young . Hows it going? Listen to the trailer for. Another said, I was thinking of you today and how much you have helped me.. Be part of The Experiment. Occupation (s) Guitarist. Some sought counseling, slept under their beds, or carried guns. A former employee said that staffers had to go to Youngs houseanother McMansionto drag him out of bed, and that he would occasionally arrive at the clinic drunk. Theyre standoffish towards you. Obesity and diabetes are rampant; so is chronic pain. PreventaGenix, with its Doric columns and grand portico, appeared to preside over the rest. Every time. Young: Whats up, my friend? In an attempt to understand how Young got away with so much for so long, Ive spent more than a year tracking his story, reading court documents, and examining his extensive digital footprint. Some people from the area said they had been harassed by Jeff and were afraid to speak out. Khazan: LaRhonda didnt know anything about all of thisthe nursing board didnt make their investigation publicbut she was following him on social media. One of the differences between physicians and nurse practitioners is that physicians are regulated by a state Board of Medicine, while in most states, nurse practitioners are regulated by a state Board of Nursing. Patel left soon after. Im like, Im as outspoken as he is. Aw, shit! 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. They didnt have tattoos. Thrash metal, heavy metal, speed metal, blues, classical. There was no statement even made to the Feds. (Court records do not contain the names of Youngs alleged victims.) When it was getting close to the end of when I was going, it would be packed. 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. So what? One employee recalled him sometimes being too drunk to see patients. Why would he do this? He graduated from Musicians Institute in 1985, and is best known for his time with the thrash metal band Megadeth, appearing on the 1988 album So Far, So Good. But you know what? I swear he didnt look at my leg for 30 seconds, and he told me exactly what it was, he says. Wear a short skirt and no panties.. (Fades under.). 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. (The background music shifts tone dramatically to a wispy, light, contemplative energy.). They described Young to me as intelligent, as knowing almost as much as a doctor would knowor maybe even more. I dont. As the nursing boards investigation of Young inched along, another agency launched its own probe into the Rock Doc. He pleaded not guilty to the . Supposedly candid confessions from Young about his life are interspersed with complimentary interviews with patients. 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. And people in the pilot gave testimonials saying as much. Listen to the trailer for Holy Week. It was just rocked out. Three, two, one. An obese man explains that Young helped him with his swollen leg. Editing by Katherine Wells, Julia Longoria, and Denise Wills. All right, guys. Scott Deberry: Everyone in his office was all white. The manufacturers and distributors of prescription opioids have been sued by dozens of states and municipalities for the damage theyve allegedly caused. Khazan: In his Periscope videos, Jeff insisted it was all fun and games, and people were just criticizing him because of his style. Jeff didnt monitor M.Y.s use, or talk to him about the danger of combining drugs. Despite the accumulation of evidence suggesting that Young was running his practice recklessly and endangering patients, he remained licensed to write prescriptions for five years after PreventaGenix opened its doors. Young and Phillips, both longtime musicians, reveal that theyre working on some rap songs about Youngs haters, then ponder how to do gang signs. Calles: I dont know. Naylor: My husband hadnt been to a doctor in years. To date, none of the alleged victims in Youngs court case has come forward publicly to speak against him. 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. Young seemed eager to hire lots of staff, but would end up firing them later. Over the past two decades, opioids have claimed more than 450,000 American lives. I accept all insurance, he told her. The clinic sat on a quiet road crammed with other medical practicesa sleep doctor, a dentist, a nephrologist, an orthodontisteach in its own . (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.) Khazan: In one sense, I understand some of Jeffs patients defensiveness toward him. Nurse practitioner Jeff Young, known as the "Rock Doc," and . Kevin: (In a Periscope video.) Another compared Young to a brother and called my reporting disrespectful.. (The music opens up into a technologic rainforest as synthesizers mimic birdsong.). (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. Thank you for taking care of me, not just the sex and satisfaction but the Soma too, wrote one patient, referring to a muscle relaxer. Who cares? All throughout the past few months, Youngs fans have papered his Facebook wall with loving messages. All rights reserved. Listen to the trailer for Holy Week. 40 members in the TDBauto community. He wasnt in pain. Naylor: Yes, he does. 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.). 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. I visited Youngs clinic, but, through a staffer, he declined to speak with me. I expected to hear lots of horror stories of abuse and mistreatment. The camera follows Young as he treats patients, talks on a local radio station, dances with women at a club, and brags about drinking. 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. You may not like what I stand for. Purdue voice-over: Some patients may be afraid of taking opioids because theyre perceived as too strong or addictive but that is far from actual fact. Defending himself in one of his on-camera interviews, Young acknowledges that he is maybe a little untraditional and that he might like to drink a little bit after hours. But, he says, Im very passionate about what I do I work hard, but I play harder. Youngs practice was, for a time, an inexpensive, reliable option for medical care in Jackson. You may not like my tattoos. 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 . I talked to him a couple of weeks ago. Hed wandered off into the woods. All of his patients I saw when I would come would be all white. 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. Occasionally he would glare at his ex-wife Dawn, who was in the gallery. The allegations, when they started coming, though, really started coming fast. Khazan: He worked in the timber industry, and one day at work, he got overheated and disoriented. In the past five years, at least 40 medical providers nationwide have been accused of exchanging sex for addictive drugs. 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. The sharpteeth charge through and run into the rock spire and fall down. You can all suck my dick! he yells at the camera in one Periscope video, a stethoscope around his neck and a cigar in his hand. Yet he still attracted patients at GeneXis prior to his detention hearing in May 2019. They didnt play Stairway to Heaven or have Periscope accounts. One of them was that I had the story all wrong. They painted a picture of the kind of medical office where you might actually want to hang out. You may not like my piercings. Rudins lawyer did not respond to a request for comment. 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? 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. Im very shocked. Years before the launch of PreventaGenix, Young had already been accused of abusing his nurse-practitioner license. In 2014, Jeff started seeing a patient with the initials M.Y. Thats okay. (The music crescendos before playing out into the break. Never give up God is full of second chances, one woman wrote. Naylor: They would look at me and say [Dismissively. You could see, almost, when you were talking to him, he was listeningand he was thumping that pen to the beat of the music. Over that time, his online following grew. Phillips popped off to a friend.). Many people in Jackson seemed to see themselves in Young. Young: (Over hard-rock music.) In February 2016, he texted one of his opioid patients, a police officer named Jay Green. The daughter, Melody, actually works in her dad's vet clinic. (A snare hit plays, and the music changes tone again. Young: (Serious, and a little angry.) One story I found in a letter from Jeffs nursing-board case stuck with me. But tonally, much of the footage betrays him. A year later, the Tennessee nursing board suspended his ability to prescribe most opioids and other controlled substances for two years, saying that he had prescribed them irresponsibly. (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.). ], Oh, you look fine to me.. Instead, Young began by kicking Reitz out of the business, Reitz told me. And the word that kept coming up when people described Jeff is comfortable. He invited a cameraman to document his life and eventually had it edited into a pilot for a reality-TV show. (A moment of narrative silence. He tried to ignore it, but when he woke up the next morning, LeAnn noticed he still looked really bad. Jackson, a city of about 70,000 people, looks like almost any midsize patch of America that sprang up sometime after the Pilgrims but before Microsoft. States largely rely on medical boards to regulate practitioners, but these entities have a reputation for leniency. He seemed, to his former employees, constitutionally unable to deny patients the pills they wanted, even if it was the last thing they needed. [Chuckles.] Longoria: There are many pieces to the puzzle of how opioids found their way into so many medicine cabinets. Jeff gets his nick name "Rock Doc" from his loyal patients. Khazan: The Rock Doc, Jeff Young, has been in jail for almost two years, awaiting trial. Its joined at points by a line of harmony played on a synthesizer.). The entire epidemic has been an unending story of doctors, pharmaceutical executives, and public officials blithely ignoring signs of danger. Young: (Over the sound of a pool-filtration system.) Khazan: Part of making her feel better was prescribing her opioids. Hes a great doctor and never has he acted any way towards me but professional! one woman wrote. The agency also searched Youngs cellphone. This social-media stardom appears to have helped inoculate him against concerns that his loose approach to medicine could harm anyone. And it was immediately clear that he is not your average medical provider. Khazan: Her husband had severe dehydration and was suffering from a heat stroke. Not that theyre not cheating on their wives. The man says if he were ever shot, he would go to Young before going to the hospital. Copyright 2021 The Atlantic and New York Public Radio. Being around Young made her feel emotionally safe, she said. It wasnt like any medical office Id ever been to. No one could quite tell me who or what was responsible for Youngs transformation. Its gonna be a little cold, all right? Longoria: The result is that more than 450,000 people are dead from overdose in the last 20 years. We put out calls and emails to dozens of Jeff Youngs patients. Khazan: Christi had really appreciated what Jeff did for her. 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