At other times, PreventaGenix staffers would stumble upon a woman he had brought to the clinic the previous night. The waiting room often overflowed with patients. And now we see the result. Ill meet you there. Use the hashtag #TheExperimentPodcast, or write to us at theexperiment@theatlantic.com. I am a, uh, nurse practitioner. Khazan: The one that caught my eye was this guy named Jeff Young, a nurse practitioner who called himself the Rock Doc, quote-unquote. The Daily Beast Automated News Feed No Censorship, Just News. But I was willing to overlook all that, you know? Young cries at his sons fifth-grade graduation, then explains that hes so emotional because his nurses are having their periods. Though the system came slowly for Young, during the years he was being investigated America underwent a national reckoning about opioids. Why didnt anyone try to put a stop to this? I just had a lot of questions about how could this happen, you know? 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. Longoria: There are many pieces to the puzzle of how opioids found their way into so many medicine cabinets. (She did not want to be named for fear of jeopardizing her business.) He was like, No, we do Botox and stuff for people, and dah-dah-dah-dah. Yall partying in the office? [Chuckles.] Brown hair, green eyes, amazing body. He smells them again. Why would you go to this doctor? I dont like him asking out my daughter But even then, I still went to him, and my ex-husband still went to him. Whats up kids? (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.). 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. His black shirt collar didnt quite hide the tattoos on the back of his neck. 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. 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.) After PreventaGenix shut down, Young told his patients on Facebook that they could contact Reitz and Patels attorney to get their medical records. No one could quite tell me who or what was responsible for Youngs transformation. Less than half answered. Khazan: So Ive written a million stories about this. Young became known for putting drugs into the hands of almost anyone who asked. Moreover, throwing some glimpse of lights to his personal life, Dr. Jeff is a happily married man. Nurse practitioners have played a key role in Tennessees opioid epidemic. Yes. I visited Youngs clinic, but, through a staffer, he declined to speak with me. I had a lot of Why on earth? questions, the Atlantic reporter Olga Khazan says. His Rock Doc persona helped him connect with patients who might never have felt comfortable in a traditional doctors office. Young: (Just after another person laughs.) We thought we would close out the daythe third Periscope of the daywith a little fireside chat. Country music lyrics, guitar tabs/tablatures, chords source #1. 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. He even convinced her to get weight-loss surgery. I just didnt feel comfortable. 1,274 likes. 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. Hey, are you paying attention? 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. Khazan: Like, for example, here he is sniffing a pair of womens underwear with his sidekick, a friend named Kevin. Khazan: In one sense, I understand some of Jeffs patients defensiveness toward him. His small fiefdom of followers created a mini echo chamber, feeding back approval and encouragement. Not that theyre not watching internet porn. 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? Im in the middle of a life-saving procedure here. When it was getting close to the end of when I was going, it would be packed. Five other medical providers, just in Jackson, were indicted too. Never give up God is full of second chances, one woman wrote. 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. (Laughs heartily.). 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. This is The Experiment, a show about our unfinished country. Naylor: (A sharp inhale.) They learned to ignore it. To one patient, who he prescribed hydrocodone, amphetamines, and fentanyl, he said, I accept all insurance. Look at me! Its joined at points by a line of harmony played on a synthesizer.). Young seemed to have been expecting them. Fullington, who was also let go, told me she got a threatening call from Young. A staffer, who declined to talk on the record, asked me why I was writing about him. I expected to hear lots of horror stories of abuse and mistreatment. Young was by no means nationally or even regionally known. Khazan: Even LaRhonda, the retired teacher who had soured on Jeff, told me that Jeff was the rare provider who would take her pain seriously. You may not like my rock and roll. Young cared for all kinds of people, some of whom didnt have money or health insurance. Visit our website terms of use at www.wnyc.org for further information. The men each contributed $40,000 to the endeavor. He pleaded not guilty to the . Ultimately, what hastened Youngs downfall is that some of the female patients asking him for drugs were undercover officers. You ready? Khazan: And Christi also told me a very similar thing as the other patients I talked to: Shes had terrible experiences with other doctors. (A snare hit plays, and the music changes tone again. Eventually Shirley Pickering, the nursing-board investigator who was looking into the allegations against Young, also grew terrified of him. Of course other doctors dont write as many prescriptions, the implication seemed to be. His wife also loves animals and works in the same clinic. His lawyer also declined to answer any specific allegations. Its a shame, he told me, that Young got into so much legal trouble; think of all the people he might have helped. They painted a picture of the kind of medical office where you might actually want to hang out. Khazan: Tanya had a different theory about where all the criticism was actually coming from. He tried to ignore it, but when he woke up the next morning, LeAnn noticed he still looked really bad. Many medical providers are small-business owners who operate with limited oversight from authorities. Youngs story raises the question of where care crosses into harm. He exhibited a certain tenderness as he filled syringes and sutured skin. This is Aalto. Naylor: Thats a really hard question for me to answer, because I believeour whole family believesthat he saved my husbands life. [Laughs.] The scenes are meant to serve as a testament to the effectiveness of Youngs work hard, play harder ethos. Khazan: The way I first got to know Jeff Young was through videos he posted online. Naylor: My husband hadnt been to a doctor in years. Khazan: Do you remember what kind of music was playing? was found dead of an apparent overdose. How was a nurse practitioner whose behavior was so outrageous allowed to treat patients for so long? 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. 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 . Young: Listen, I am for the patient. Its heavy, and it loops. Thrash metal, heavy metal, speed metal, blues, classical. Calles: Yes. In addition to steroid shots, Young prescribed her oxycodone, Xanax, and Adderall for her various medical issues. She appreciated that he asked about her grandkids. 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. Jackson, TN USA. Rumors started to spread in town that strange things were going on in Jeffs office. Music by Tasty Morsels and Nelson Nance. 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. Khazan: Online, Jeff would get drunk and smoke cigars. Updated at 10:28 p.m. Other doctors dont post pictures of themselves with motorcycles and scantily clad women, either. From that day on, he saw him for everything. His lawyer also declined to answer any specific allegations. In 2013, she was diagnosed with fibromyalgia, a chronic disorder that is usually accompanied by widespread pain and fatigue. In February 2016, he texted one of his opioid patients, a police officer named Jay Green. Young: Whats up, my friend? And hed stream from inside the clinic sometimes. The next year, Jeff prescribed M.Y. 1:07. Aw, shit! Early in the epidemic, Purdue gave doctors OxyContin fishing hats and swing-music CDs to encourage them to prescribe more of the drug. Watching this makes me really sad, one YouTube user commented on the Rock Doc pilot in 2019. He pleaded not guilty to the charges, and is currently in jail awaiting trial. 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. Scott Deberry: You go to the doctor, and you tell them whats wrong with you, and they look at you like, Oh, its nothing. The agents seized about 350 of Youngs patient charts and every computer in the office, according to Gutgsell, the former office manager, and the notice of seizure states that about 10,000 individual doses of hydrocodone were also taken. If a patient would text him a compliment, he would blast it all over Facebook, one former employee told me. Not all of them were into the whole edgy hard-rock thing at first. Many people trust doctors even when theyre harmed by their treatment, and a 2008 study found that people are more likely to spend time researching a new employer or a new car than vetting a new surgeon. Meanwhile, LeAnn Naylor, the secretary of Jacksons former mayor, first told me over email that she stood by Young after his hearing, but then recently said shed started having doubts because Young would frequently hit on her adult daughter. 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. Hes prescribing drugs that people want, another man added. (Fades under.). A few months into their new venture, Reitz and Young were supposed to meet to discuss the running of the clinic. Ballard: I dont believe Jeff overprescribed medication. LaRhonda Scott Deberry: When I first met him, I thought maybe he was prejudiced. While Youngs antics could be a nightmare for his staff, his pool of patients increased as word about his practice spread. It really meant a lot to me. In 2014, Jeff started seeing a patient with the initials M.Y. The next morning, the office manager, Kristie Gutgsell, would clean up after them. Longoria: And one of those worst of the worst providers stood out from the others. Sound design by David Herman. Have you ever been to a doctor and you just didnt feel comfortable? The manufacturers and distributors of prescription opioids have been sued by dozens of states and municipalities for the damage theyve allegedly caused. Rather than suffer any real consequences for his allegedly reckless prescribing, Young continued to work as a medical provider for years. Khazan: Part of making her feel better was prescribing her opioids. MY died on August 25, 2015, from an apparent drug overdose. You could see, almost, when you were talking to him, he was listeningand he was thumping that pen to the beat of the music. Am I a misogynist, or do women just like rough sex? Young asks himself in one video. It wasnt like any medical office Id ever been to. Longoria: Olga Khazan is a staff writer at The Atlantic whos been covering the opioid epidemic for the last seven years. #coffeeplease #noontime #rockrageradio www.rockrageradio.com Im like, Im as outspoken as he is. The allegations against Young seemed to take a toll on him, though. Then it rewinds into nothingness.). Christi Calles lived 30 miles away in Lexington. Thats the big joke. LeAnn said that Jeff stayed for hours, changing IV bags and chatting with him. But that did not put a stop to Youngs ambitions. Khazan: Do you feel like Jeff has done more harm than good? 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. Trust me, I got people, he says to the camera. The whole thing was Very Online. (Young has denied that hed had sex with the patient who appeared to be drugged.). They would shut off the power so they had an excuse to close the clinic on those days. Young grew up in Bethel Springs, a 700-person village near Jackson. Most of these doctors werent like Jeff. Jeff wanted what was best for his patient. 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 The resulting addictions were blamed on reckless patients, rather than the fundamental chemistry of the opioids themselves. Otherwise, fledgling practices, in particular, risk losing patients. 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. We cant live if hes out, she said. 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. (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.) I talked to him a couple of weeks ago. 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. How far can medical providers go in giving patients what they want? They are often too under-resourced and understaffed to keep a watchful eye on all medical providers. Young and Phillips, both longtime musicians, reveal that theyre working on some rap songs about Youngs haters, then ponder how to do gang signs. But as I talked to more patients, they started saying things that really surprised me. There is a friendliness, too, that one associates with the South. (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.). Hes just laid back. One admitted that Young had flirted with her. Longoria: Pharmaceutical companies marketed these drugs aggressively to doctors. Young: Very nice. The allegations, when they started coming, though, really started coming fast. Mellow and slow, it moves under the narration the way water moves through a stream.). 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. And doctorswho work in what is, after all, a service professionsometimes feel that its easier to pacify the patient than to push back. (Court records do not contain the names of Youngs alleged victims.) Lets see here, shes 23, Young says. 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. You may not like my piercings. Sometimes patients seeking opioids go to different providers until they find one who is willing to prescribe to them. Were taking next week off to work on new stories, but well be back with new episodes starting April 15. After the raid, Young spent the night in jail on an outstanding warrant, and PreventaGenix closed soon after. Khazan: Thirty-one doctors and seven other nurse practitioners were busted in that same Justice Department sweep that caught Jeff. In July 2016, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation began looking into allegations that Young was overprescribing opioids. (A meandering guitar melody enters the background. As many as three women a day allegedly came to his office for sex, though one former employee said Young might have had sex with more women after hours. Khazan: LeAnn Naylor was the secretary for the mayor of Jackson when she started seeing Jeff as a patient. Dr. Jeff is married to Petra Mickova Petra though she is his second wife. Hed also given her tips on how to eat better and how to lose weight. [Khazan laughs.] Without doing a physical exam, Young diagnosed MY with chronic lower-back pain and anxiety, the letter details. Toward the end of PreventaGenix, the nurse practitioner so many people had praised deteriorated, according to former employees. 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. Scott Deberry: I just didnt like all the bickering on social media and in that newspaper. At Youngs practice, the quantities of opioids were larger than many investigations that I conducted, Shirley Pickering, a nursing-board investigator, later said in court. His case before the nursing board stalled for two more years. 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. For the occasion of his detention hearing, Young wore a cerulean suit and a comb-over. Khazan: Or stitch someone up after they cut themselves on a wine glass. Young was, in short, a medical provider who acted like everyones best friend. Young: Even get all gussied up for tonight. But the more time I spent thinking about it, the more I started to realize that Jeff has a point. The entire epidemic has been an unending story of doctors, pharmaceutical executives, and public officials blithely ignoring signs of danger. At the beginning of the opioid epidemic, the autonomy of doctors to prescribe opioids was almost limitless, Keith Humphreys, a Stanford University professor who researches mental-health policy, says. Jeff immediately sees that he is inyou know, hes in pretty bad shape. Doctors offices make money by billing insurance companies for the services the providers perform, but it was hard to do this at PreventaGenix because the documentation for Youngs visits was so shoddy. Khazan: The Rock Doc, Jeff Young, has been in jail for almost two years, awaiting trial. 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: (Moaning.) She doesnt think Young was the one who drugged her, but she believes nevertheless that she was drugged. 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. Young, 43, a Tennessee nurse practitioner who called himself 'Rock Doc' and once piloted . Young got married, then quickly got divorced, according to several people who knew him then. It doesnt sound like much of a sella middle-aged man doling out medical advice in a city midway between Memphis and Nashville. Not that half of the, you know powers that be are on some sort of whatever. He refilled MYs prescriptions for Percocet and Valium, and also prescribed him hydrocodone. Khazan: The videos were sarcastic and loose, intimate in their own bizarre way. Theyre standoffish towards you. Young had an active channel on Periscope, where he and Phillips drank and waxed philosophical. She doesnt believe the allegations against him, and chalks them up to pure jealousy. (Lo-fi synthesizer music plays up. This social-media stardom appears to have helped inoculate him against concerns that his loose approach to medicine could harm anyone. You can all suck my d***. Khazan: I was wondering if your ex-husband still supports Jeff or thinks he was a good medical provider. Khazan: Anyone online could watch him, say, biopsy someones skin while listening to hard rock. They liked his plainspoken approach to medicine, a profession typically associated with jargon and elitism. You know that. But you know what? 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 . Why would you go to this doctor? His vision was, evidently, to one day launch a reality series of the same name. The man says if he were ever shot, he would go to Young before going to the hospital. Hes a great doctor and never has he acted any way towards me but professional! one woman wrote. Jackson, Tennessee. As the court spent two days scrutinizing his years of alleged misdeeds, he sat mostly silently. He gave Young total control over what was recorded. 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. Youngs second marriage was already in trouble by the time PreventaGenix launched, and after his divorce he quickly found new girlfriends. The DEA raided Jeffs clinic and seized all of his computers and thousands of doses of the opioid hydrocodone. Strippers, tattoo artists, and rock-band groupies saw a kindred spirit in Young and came to him as patients. Angele Latham. 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 had had back surgery, and I really had real problems that no one wanted to listen to me about. Young: (Over the sound of a pool-filtration system.) But he, uh He was true to himself; lets say that. [A moment of indistinct crosstalk.] And if you want to help other people discover the show, share it online with the hashtag #TheExperimentPodcast, and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts. She said, He latches on to young single mothers, and he rushes in and wants toquote-unquotesave them.. Why would he do this? Longoria: And what part of the crisis were you most focused on? Some of his patients were police officers whom he would occasionally ask for favors. Khazan: The first time I watched this video, I just heard Jeff making excuses. Heres what I can tell you about the JY2, all right? I asked to speak with him for this story, but because of a gag order on the case, his lawyer declined interviews with me. Stephanie, who returned to Youngs clinic after the incident at the club, said Young helped her more than any doctor shes ever seen. But it played [Emphasizing.] 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. Khazan: A lot of them, unfortunately, went with it. Jeffrey " Jeff " Young (born March 31, 1962) is an American guitarist. (A shudder, a gasp, then clapping and bubbling evolve into a background track.). They just, like, keep their distance from you. 0:06. I am very nervous about it, she replied. Jeff didnt monitor M.Y.s use, or talk to him about the danger of combining drugs. 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. In 2014, Young began seeing a patient identified as MY in a letter from Tennessees department of healtha letter that would ultimately lead to a nursing-board hearing for Young. In another, he totters around with an empty bottle of bourbon and pans the camera over to Phillips, who is asleep on the couch. And no education whatsoever, Phillips jokes. (Fades under.). (A long beat of music. Stephanie had been in an abusive relationship and dealt with a slew of other traumas. Im Julia Longoria. 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. But when he suggested it the way he did, I took it seriously. Khazan: Jeff had been good to Tanya in the clinic, which was an experience that she didnt usually have with doctors. 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. 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. Another said, I was thinking of you today and how much you have helped me.. He has three children, two sons, and a daughter, from his first marriage. We put out calls and emails to dozens of Jeff Youngs patients. 40 members in the TDBauto community. 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. ET on January 28, 2021. Doctors, in theory, would only prescribe to people who needed the drugs and would monitor patients so they wouldnt get addicted. 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