Khazan: Christi had really appreciated what Jeff did for her. On my trip, I strolled by a glass case near the federal courthouse that held a large Bible opened to the Gospel of John. Calles: I mean, the whole deal of him being in jail this long is completely unfair. 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. And now we see the result. 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. I said, um, So what are yall doing after-hour? Yeah. Thats very distressing Yeah, Im shocked, you know? Naylor: (A sharp inhale.) 40 members in the TDBauto community. (A long moment of music with no narration before it fades out. Less than half answered. Thank you for listening. (Fades under.). (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.) They didnt have tattoos. Khazan: In 2016, Jeff tried to broadcast his world even more widely. had lower back pain and complained of numbness in his left arm. Jeffrey Young wanted to give you a real look inside his clinic. 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. They dont want to touch you unless they have to touch you. Calles: Yes. Some people from the area said they had been harassed by Jeff and were afraid to speak out. At other times, PreventaGenix staffers would stumble upon a woman he had brought to the clinic the previous night. The sharpteeth charge through and run into the rock spire and fall down. He found diseases, for example, that other doctors missed. They entered the office and ordered the clinics staffers to lie on the floor. One admitted that Young had flirted with her. Youngs case provides a rare glimpse into the ways patients wind up addicted to the powerful painkillers fueling the national opioid epidemic. He pleaded not guilty to the charges, and is currently in jail awaiting trial. He messaged at least five female patients about sex and filling prescriptions, prosecutors would later say, detailing the anonymized encounters in court. 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. Actually very nice, yeah. I dont wear underwear. 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. PreventaGenix, with its Doric columns and grand portico, appeared to preside over the rest. Khazan: In the pilot, he presents himself as more of a friend than a medical professional. Naylor: And I remember him saying, Bring him to the office. Visit our website terms of use at www.wnyc.org for further information. Lets see here, shes 23, Young says. In the past five years, at least 40 medical providers nationwide have been accused of exchanging sex for addictive drugs. Downtown has an old-fashioned square, a few coffee shops striving for trendiness, and some suburban standbysMcAlisters Deli, Kohls, Chilis, Panera Breadall connected by well-maintained roads and featuring black oceans of parking lots. Never give up God is full of second chances, one woman wrote. In recent years, the Justice Department has started coming for unscrupulous doctors and pharmacists, too. I told him about this podcastexplained to him what a podcast was. You can find Olgas written reporting on the Rock Doc at our website: http://www.theatlantic.com/experiment. 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. But it played [Emphasizing.] 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. Stephanie had been in an abusive relationship and dealt with a slew of other traumas. Young: All right. Patients would spend an hour or two in the waiting room, only to get a rushed exam and prescription. Jeff immediately sees that he is inyou know, hes in pretty bad shape. I asked to speak with him for this story, but because of a gag order on the case, his lawyer declined interviews with me. No one else seemed capable of treating all her problemsthroat swelling, high blood pressure, attention issues. He has three children, two sons, and a daughter, from his first marriage. People who criticized Young swiftly became his enemies. To get from pharma lab to medicine cabinet, the drug needed to pass through one of the most sacred spaces in America. Nurse practitioner Jeff Young, known as the "Rock Doc," and . 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. Young was indicted on drug-trafficking charges in April 2019. They didnt openly harass anyone who criticized them. I dont. 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. 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. (One employee, Karla Wright, testified later that she had never seen Young have sex with women at the office. Apparently she felt strongly enough about it that he wouldnt leave her alone if she went to see him. Then it fades out.). He was the casual party guy, not the stuffy doctor. But you know what? 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. It feels claustrophobic.). Jacksons cheeriness, though, is at odds with the populations somewhat grim physical health. The feds say Young . A staffer, who declined to talk on the record, asked me why I was writing about him. In November 2016, the health department threatened to file charges against Young before the board of nursing. And he said, You be sure and tell them that Jeff is the best doctor Ive ever seen. He said, Promise me you will tell them that. I said, I promise I will. I said, I will tell them that., (The music plays up for a long moment, then fades out under the narration.). 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 . His small fiefdom of followers created a mini echo chamber, feeding back approval and encouragement. The grosser side. (Soft percussive synthesizer music plays.). 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. (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.). Young: Listen, I am for the patient. RockDocTV Show. Heres what I can tell you. Several others dismissed the notion that Young could be sexually coercive. Listen to the trailer for, The Hard-Partying, Rock-Obsessed Nurse at the Center of a Massive Opioid Bust. And Jeff, sitting at the center of it, covered in tattooshe had a sort of unlikely charisma too. On April 17, 2019, officials swept through Appalachia, charging 53 medical professionals, including doctors, nurses, and pharmacists. There is a friendliness, too, that one associates with the South. But she also told me the story of her ex-husband. (Plucky yet funky music plays. Young, 43, a Tennessee nurse practitioner who called himself 'Rock Doc' and once piloted . Dang, Jeff What happened? Helena Louvaris and Melanie Lupino, two of Youngs staunch defenders, both declined to speak with me when I called them back to see if they still supported him after he was jailed. 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. Off camera, Young allegedly prescribed 1.4 million addictive pills and had sex with female patients. every time. The biggest blow came in 2019, when Jeff was indicted by the federal government for overprescribing opioids, often in order to get, quote, money, notoriety, and sexual favors., In a court hearing, investigators described several Facebook messages between Jeff and his patients, identified only by their initials. So, uh, here we are, sitting by the pool. He tied the knot with his beautiful wife Dr. Petra. Thats okay. When one video was apparently manipulated by one of his detractors and posted online, Young threatened whoever might have done it. The former patient told me she became afraid to leave her house. Watching this makes me really sad, one YouTube user commented on the Rock Doc pilot in 2019. Women were drawn to Young; he had a big house and was the first to buy everyones drink. One former patient who had a falling-out with Young told me he or someone associated with him attacked her on the internet forum Topix, calling her a whore and a drunk. She said her home address and photos of her adult daughters were posted on the site, along with rape threats directed at her daughters. 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. Khazan: LaRhonda Scott Deberry is a 54-year-old former teacher who lives in Memphis. Jeff gets his nick name "Rock Doc" from his loyal patients. Yall partying in the office? [Chuckles.] 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. 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. It was just rocked out. The manufacturers and distributors of prescription opioids have been sued by dozens of states and municipalities for the damage theyve allegedly caused. 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 Being around Young made her feel emotionally safe, she said. Why didnt anyone try to put a stop to this? I just had a lot of questions about how could this happen, you know? (Lo-fi synthesizer music plays up. [Chuckles.] The men each contributed $40,000 to the endeavor. One of his patients, Helena Louvaris, told me that Young saved her life by putting her on a diet plan. You may not like my sexy-ass beard. ), Khazan: So doctors were kind of like, Okay.. But the board has a history of letting suspicious providers go on practicing for years. But, in theory, there should have been a check on all this. (Topix has since been shut down.) I asked to speak with him for this story, but because of a gag order on the case, his lawyer declined interviews with me. Even now, I cant say that. He has pleaded not guilty to all the charges against him. Not that theyre not cheating on their wives. Listen and subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Google Podcasts, The patients of the nurse practitioner and aspiring reality star Jeffrey Young say he helped them like nobody else could. Jackson Sun. And people in the pilot gave testimonials saying as much. Khazan: There was this really big series of indictments that came down in 2019 where the federal government said, You know what? As the cameraman who filmed the pilot told me, Everywhere he went, it was like the Beatles., But the way in which Young gained some of these fans has become the focus of a federal court case. Oh, look, I got a new haircut today (Fades under.). Young seemed to have been expecting them. In September 2014, Young, Reitz, and Patel opened their first clinic and called it PreventaGenix. They thought I was basically lazy and just wanted to have pain pills, just for whatever reason. She texted Jeff. [Laughs lightly.] 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. And the consequences might have gone beyond sexual abuse and addiction. They didnt try to become reality-TV stars. In one scene, he and his best friend, a pharmaceutical representative named John Kevin Phillips, broadcast themselves on the video-streaming app Periscope. In confessional-style interviews, Young seems to enjoy offending anyone whos shocked by his approach. We got a very, uh, important (Fades under.). 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. a dangerous combination of an opioid, a benzodiazepine, and a muscle relaxant. Young is . (A meandering guitar melody enters the background. You ready? The allegations against Young seemed to take a toll on him, though. The first move of any significant consequence for Young came in early 2017, when the DEA raided the clinic. He didnt pull any punches, she said. The next year, Jeff prescribed M.Y. Im very shocked. Patients say the Rock Doc helped them like no one else could. (Young has denied that hed had sex with the patient who appeared to be drugged.). All of his patients I saw when I would come would be all white. Lax regulations played a role. We thought we would close out the daythe third Periscope of the daywith a little fireside chat. Khazan: He had an account on Periscope, the live-streaming site. Hed also given her tips on how to eat better and how to lose weight. If a patient would text him a compliment, he would blast it all over Facebook, one former employee told me. Additional music by Nelson Bandela (04 HIDDEN FORCES and Auddi Sun 01 131). (Youngs attorney claimed in court that only about 25 percent of his patients were.) So, no, I cant say that. In 2014, Jeff started seeing a patient with the initials M.Y. 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. So it was kind of significant to me. LeAnn Naylor: I have not had a lot of positive interactions with doctors. She wasnt the only patient to stick by him. Early in the epidemic, Purdue gave doctors OxyContin fishing hats and swing-music CDs to encourage them to prescribe more of the drug. The entire epidemic has been an unending story of doctors, pharmaceutical executives, and public officials blithely ignoring signs of danger. As Young collected more tattoos and befriended more local bands, he began to attract a certain clientele. They are often too under-resourced and understaffed to keep a watchful eye on all medical providers. (Endo denied the allegations.) (The case did not result in a conviction.) Yes. All rights reserved. (Fades under.). Young: Even get all gussied up for tonight. Thats okay. 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. (Laughs heartily.). MY came to PreventaGenix complaining of lower-back pain and numbness in his left arm, and asked for refills of pain medications. But they helped create the opioid crisis all the same. He would still be allowed to prescribe testosterone and cough syrup with codeine, however. It wasnt like any medical office Id ever been to. Khazan: Anyone online could watch him, say, biopsy someones skin while listening to hard rock. Young: Very nice. Pharmacists began to refuse to fill his prescriptions. Later that month, M.Y. So it just kind of, I guess, comforted me. The next morning, the office manager, Kristie Gutgsell, would clean up after them. In May 2019, shortly after Young was indicted, I traveled to Jackson to try to understand the place that gave rise to the Rock Doc. 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. Otherwise, fledgling practices, in particular, risk losing patients. But Young was eager to let the world know that he was no typical nurse practitioner. Jeff wanted what was best for his patient. But the more time I spent thinking about it, the more I started to realize that Jeff has a point. I swear he didnt look at my leg for 30 seconds, and he told me exactly what it was, he says. His Rock Doc persona helped him connect with patients who might never have felt comfortable in a traditional doctors office. He has pleaded not guilty to all the charges against him. Be part of The Experiment. With Young at least temporarily behind bars, some of his fans seem to have reached a point of disillusionment with the Rock Docor, at least, a point of fatigue. Other doctors dont post pictures of themselves with motorcycles and scantily clad women, either. Khazan: To me, this felt immature, but it was all part of the brand. Young had an active channel on Periscope, where he and Phillips drank and waxed philosophical. When PreventaGenix closed, Young was alleged to have failed to pay part of the unemployment insurance, federal tax withholdings, and final payroll for the clinic, according to a lawsuit filed by his former partners, Reitz and Patel. Aw, shit! Im too good for you because I got this money, or whatever. Dr. Jeff is married to Petra Mickova Petra though she is his second wife. Three, two, one. Ballard: Most doctors dont wanna touch you, and they only wanna address one issue at a time. 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. Even after this, she returned to Young as a patient. 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. Khazan: In 2017, the very public world Jeff had built around himself started attracting a different kind of attention. The patients of the nurse practitioner and aspiring reality star Jeffrey Young say he helped them like nobody else could. Its light and upbeat.). Sometimes he wore scrubs, but most of the time he had on jeans, scrub tops, and a rock T-shirt, and a doctors jacket. Khazan: This is Tanya Ballard. 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. At this point, the people of Jackson knew the full extent of officials suspicions about Young. I am very nervous about it, she replied. Everybody pay fucking attention worldwide because Im about to save this motherfuckers lifelive on Periscope broadcast! I need you to find this fucker, he wrote, according to court testimony later reported by The Jackson Sun. And the word that kept coming up when people described Jeff is comfortable. This episode was reported by Olga Khazan and produced by Alvin Melathe. Naylor: I said, Go see Jeff. And she said, Id rather not. And I said, Why? And she said, Because if I go see him, hell start texting me and calling me. And I said, And wanting to go out with you? And she said, Yeah. Thats the thing. Five other medical providers, just in Jackson, were indicted too. Young: (Moaning.) Stephanie, who returned to Youngs clinic after the incident at the club, said Young helped her more than any doctor shes ever seen. Hows it going? It fit neatly, at least, into a story I was already really familiar with: It was the greedy provider who was allegedly taking advantage of his patients. ), Youngs sexual desires and need to please patients allegedly soon blurred together. Dont worry, my tattoos dont like you either, one image reads. 13.6k members in the AutoNewspaper community. An active and fun show following the life of FNP Jeff Young II at work and his life after work. Of course other doctors dont write as many prescriptions, the implication seemed to be. Purdue voice-over: Often, it will be an opioid medication. ), Jeff Young: Are we live? (A snare hit plays, and the music changes tone again. In April 2019, he was indicted on drug-trafficking charges, along with five other medical providers in Jackson, two of whom were the supervising physicians Young, as a nurse practitioner, was required to have. Right? From that day on, he saw him for everything. But I was willing to overlook all that, you know? He wasnt in pain. (Fades under.). You can all suck my d***. One of them was that I had the story all wrong. Scott Deberry: When I first was going in the office, I could go in there and thered be maybe 10 of us in there. In 2013, she was diagnosed with fibromyalgia, a chronic disorder that is usually accompanied by widespread pain and fatigue. Khazan: A lot of them, unfortunately, went with it. About four years after its investigation began, the nursing board finally held a hearing to consider his fate. Khazan: The first time I watched this video, I just heard Jeff making excuses. As the court spent two days scrutinizing his years of alleged misdeeds, he sat mostly silently. 1:07. Strippers, tattoo artists, and rock-band groupies saw a kindred spirit in Young and came to him as patients. 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. 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. 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. Christi Calles: His doctors office was just rocked out. Well all be killed., It helped that Young had prominent friends he could call on for help. I had a brother that passed away, and when he passed away, his friends played that for him at his funeral. The pilot footagesome of which Young posted to YouTube, and some of which I obtained from a person who was once close to Youngportrays the Rock Doc as a medical bad boy whos willing to break free from the establishment to deliver real talk. 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. Rumors started to spread in town that strange things were going on in Jeffs office. Khazan: So Ive written a million stories about this. I am a, uh, nurse practitioner. If you speak against me, she remembers him saying, youre gonna regret it.. Hed wandered off into the woods. How was a nurse practitioner whose behavior was so outrageous allowed to treat patients for so long? His indictment implicated him and two of his former supervising physicians, Alexander Alperovich and Andrew Rudin, and alleged that Youngs motives in prescribing controlled substances to his patients were often to obtain money, notoriety, and sexual favors. Alperovich and Rudin, the indictment claims, accepted money derived from the proceeds of the conspiracy in exchange for their purported supervision. (Both have pleaded not guilty. Young was, in short, a medical provider who acted like everyones best friend. And that was not the case at all. 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.*. Khazan: The one that caught my eye was this guy named Jeff Young, a nurse practitioner who called himself the Rock Doc, quote-unquote. Khazan: Or stitch someone up after they cut themselves on a wine glass. Sometimes patients seeking opioids go to different providers until they find one who is willing to prescribe to them. In an email to The Atlantic, Working said that when it came to Phillipss actions, there was no direct threat. They married in 2014 and lived right above his vet clinic in Denver. Khazan: I talked to many of Jeffs patients. Listen to the trailer for Holy Week. In fact, he avoided doctors at all costs. In August 2015, Young prescribed MY what the letter calls a dangerous combination of an opioid, a benzodiazepine, and a muscle relaxant. 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. (A moment of narrative silence. All of them said that they didnt think Jeff sexually abused them. Young and Phillips, both longtime musicians, reveal that theyre working on some rap songs about Youngs haters, then ponder how to do gang signs. The waiting room often overflowed with patients. Still, the citys southernness peeks through. As the nursing boards investigation of Young inched along, another agency launched its own probe into the Rock Doc. Young became known for putting drugs into the hands of almost anyone who asked. Naylor: Thats a really hard question for me to answer, because I believeour whole family believesthat he saved my husbands life. And I was like, My mind is blown. Naylor: Yes, he does. 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. Hes just laid back. Despite some patients praise for Young, the evidence that he routinely walked far over that line remains alarming. 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. There was no statement even made to the Feds. Young cries at his sons fifth-grade graduation, then explains that hes so emotional because his nurses are having their periods. 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. Hes a great doctor and never has he acted any way towards me but professional! one woman wrote. But none of these barred the Rock Doc from getting drugs into the hands of patients. 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. 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. Purdue ad doctor: These drugswhich, I repeat, are our best, strongest pain medicationsshould be used much more than they are for patients in pain. There were reports of after-hours partiespossibly of Jeff having sex with his patients. And even then, I didnt want to hear it. Calles: Doctors judged me because of my weight. Youngs second marriage was already in trouble by the time PreventaGenix launched, and after his divorce he quickly found new girlfriends. 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. 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