Young: (Moaning.) Though the system came slowly for Young, during the years he was being investigated America underwent a national reckoning about opioids. Over the past two decades, opioids have claimed more than 450,000 American lives. Jacksons cheeriness, though, is at odds with the populations somewhat grim physical health. MY died on August 25, 2015, from an apparent drug overdose. 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. Hey! All of his patients I saw when I would come would be all white. Lax regulations played a role. He messaged at least five female patients about sex and filling prescriptions, prosecutors would later say, detailing the anonymized encounters in court. (Plucky yet funky music plays. Listen to the trailer for Holy Week. They didnt play Stairway to Heaven or have Periscope accounts. Some of the doctors who have been accused of exchanging drugs for sex in recent years threatened patients that they would cut off their supply of painkillers if they didnt gratify them. Doctors, in theory, would only prescribe to people who needed the drugs and would monitor patients so they wouldnt get addicted. (Patel did not respond to requests for comment.) 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. Fact-check by Michelle Ciarrocca and Jack Segelstein. (The two clap each others backs in a half-hug.). You can all suck my d***. It really meant a lot to me. Khazan: And Christi also told me a very similar thing as the other patients I talked to: Shes had terrible experiences with other doctors. But the more time I spent thinking about it, the more I started to realize that Jeff has a point. But maybe, just maybe, he showed too much. (There were different Jeff Youngs in [the Records Management System] and I had very little information so he was not added to the report, the police report states.) Copyright 2021 The Atlantic and New York Public Radio. Im like, Im as outspoken as he is. Jackson, Tennessee. Several others dismissed the notion that Young could be sexually coercive. Young wanted information about one of his enemies. 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. 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. Why would he do this? Longoria: The result is that more than 450,000 people are dead from overdose in the last 20 years. Scott Deberry: Kinda made it start seeming like he was unprofessional. Jeff gets his nick name "Rock Doc" from his loyal patients. I talked to him a couple of weeks ago. PreventaGenix, with its Doric columns and grand portico, appeared to preside over the rest. (The DEA declined to comment on Youngs case for this story.) Fullington, who was also let go, told me she got a threatening call from Young. Ill meet you there. This distinction is important, because while nurse practitioners are functioning in the same capacity as physiciansordering and interpreting Phillips popped off to a friend.). You ready? Young seemed to have been expecting them. (The synthesizer takes over the harmony, traipsing up and down the melody line before it quiets and the episode ends.). #coffeeplease #noontime #rockrageradio www.rockrageradio.com He never admitted to anything that would make him look bad. So what? 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. Sound design by David Herman. In November 2016, the health department threatened to file charges against Young before the board of nursing. American doctors went on to prescribe opioids at much higher rates than their counterparts in other countries. You may not like my sexy-ass beard. Young got married, then quickly got divorced, according to several people who knew him then. And people in the pilot gave testimonials saying as much. Young: So Im gonna not have a cigar. Khazan: To me, this felt immature, but it was all part of the brand. He blasted heavy metal at his private practice and filled his Instagram feed with photos of himself smoking cigars. Actually very nice, yeah. Some of his patients were police officers whom he would occasionally ask for favors. Ballard: I dont believe Jeff overprescribed medication. A few months into their new venture, Reitz and Young were supposed to meet to discuss the running of the clinic. Naylor: I felt like he was being treated unfairlythat maybe he had even been set up. (Fades under.). Though criminal cases against doctors and nurse practitioners like Young are still relatively rare, they are growing more common. If a patient would text him a compliment, he would blast it all over Facebook, one former employee told me. Right? He was the casual party guy, not the stuffy doctor. (Youngs attorney claimed in court that only about 25 percent of his patients were.) There was no statement even made to the Feds. Khazan: This is Tanya Ballard. M.Y. When one video was apparently manipulated by one of his detractors and posted online, Young threatened whoever might have done it. 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. Jeffrey Young was one of those people. 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. had lower back pain and complained of numbness in his left arm. One of his patients, Helena Louvaris, told me that Young saved her life by putting her on a diet plan. In addition to steroid shots, Young prescribed her oxycodone, Xanax, and Adderall for her various medical issues. Over that time, his online following grew. I didnt know that. 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. But the board has a history of letting suspicious providers go on practicing for years. Sometimes the two men would fight, and broken glass would litter the floor. He would still be allowed to prescribe testosterone and cough syrup with codeine, however. He didnt pull any punches, she said. So, uh, here we are, sitting by the pool. She would wake up to find that all her car doors had been opened overnight. Trust me, I got people, he says to the camera. The cost of producing the Rock Doc pilot, about $2,000, was entirely paid for by the clinic, Gutgsell claimed in a deposition. 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. Aw, shit! Khazan: The videos were sarcastic and loose, intimate in their own bizarre way. Jeff immediately sees that he is inyou know, hes in pretty bad shape. * This article has been clarified to more accurately convey the details of Gutgsell's plea. Case 18-11780-BLS Doc 45 Filed 08/02/18 Page 1 of 1041. No one could quite tell me who or what was responsible for Youngs transformation. [Chuckles.] The resulting addictions were blamed on reckless patients, rather than the fundamental chemistry of the opioids themselves. Jackson nurse practitioner Jeffrey Young will await his opioid trafficking trial in jail, an appeals court decided Thursday. Some of Youngs dalliances with his patient-friends similarly took a dark turn. In another, he totters around with an empty bottle of bourbon and pans the camera over to Phillips, who is asleep on the couch. a dangerous combination of an opioid, a benzodiazepine, and a muscle relaxant. Young: Very nice. Always have been for the patient. 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. In 2018, a woman told police that Young put his hands down her pants during an office visit, but that apparently led to nothing. And I was like, My mind is blown. Though he was not an M.D., Young christened himself the Rock Doc.. was found dead of an apparent overdose. Well all be killed., It helped that Young had prominent friends he could call on for help. (Fades under.). Without doing a physical exam, Young diagnosed MY with chronic lower-back pain and anxiety, the letter details. ], Oh, you look fine to me.. They go on working. It feels claustrophobic.). 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. Young failed to diagnose the mans hypertension and overprescribed to him, according to court testimony, and later the patient suffered a stroke. Rock Doc pilot testimonial: (Over heavy rock music.) Having hordes of fans seems to have allowed Young to buy more deeply into his own rock-and-roll fantasy, which in turn gave him the confidence to broadcast his life through even more videos and updates. She doesnt believe the allegations against him, and chalks them up to pure jealousy. 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. Naylor: (A long beat and a breath.) Youngs story raises the question of where care crosses into harm. 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. 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. So it just kind of, I guess, comforted me. Calles: Yes. I have found accounts of at least 40 other medical providers in the country who have been accused of exchanging sex for addictive drugs. As Young collected more tattoos and befriended more local bands, he began to attract a certain clientele. Rumors started to spread in town that strange things were going on in Jeffs office. 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: LeAnns story was similar to Tanyas and LaRhondas and Christis. Patients say the Rock Doc helped them like no one else could. An active and fun show following the life of FNP Jeff Young II at work and his life after work. He tried to ignore it, but when he woke up the next morning, LeAnn noticed he still looked really bad. #saturdays at noon est to hear #nikkidarling chat with the #RockDoc Jeff Young II #musicmeetmedicine Starts at 12pm est. And that was not the case at all. Less than half answered. Dont worry, my tattoos dont like you either, one image reads. The feds say Young . Young: Whats up, my friend? (The music opens up into a technologic rainforest as synthesizers mimic birdsong.). Then it fades out.). He has pleaded not guilty to all the charges against him. Find Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and TikTok profiles, images and more on IDCrawl - free people search website. Khazan: Tanya had a different theory about where all the criticism was actually coming from. 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. Khazan: The one that caught my eye was this guy named Jeff Young, a nurse practitioner who called himself the Rock Doc, quote-unquote. 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. The resulting videos are typical scenes from a medical practicepeople donning gloves, waiting in chairsspliced together over a heavy-metal soundtrack. Young and Phillips, both longtime musicians, reveal that theyre working on some rap songs about Youngs haters, then ponder how to do gang signs. 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. I asked to speak with him for this story, but because of a gag order on the case, his lawyer declined interviews with me. Naylor: They just immediately hit it off. I said, um, So what are yall doing after-hour? Young: Hi, my name is Jeff Young. Music by Tasty Morsels and Nelson Nance. Occupation (s) Guitarist. Its heavy, and it loops. Strippers, tattoo artists, and rock-band groupies saw a kindred spirit in Young and came to him as patients. There is a friendliness, too, that one associates with the South. Nurses are consistently rated higher in honesty and ethics than all other professions that Gallup asks about, by a wide margin, the polling firm said in a January 2020 survey. Am I a misogynist, or do women just like rough sex? Young asks himself in one video. ), Youngs sexual desires and need to please patients allegedly soon blurred together. Julia Longoria: Over 20 years ago, pharmaceutical companies began to market the use of a magical pill. This episode was reported by Olga Khazan and produced by Alvin Melathe. The camera follows Young as he treats patients, talks on a local radio station, dances with women at a club, and brags about drinking. Calles: I mean, you have killersmurderers, I meanthat have not been in jail this long. The man says if he were ever shot, he would go to Young before going to the hospital. Lets see here, shes 23, Young says. He tied the knot with his beautiful wife Dr. Petra. (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. Will be glad to take the balance out of your ass. To another, Jeff asked, You want to come by for a checkup tomorrow? Thrash metal, heavy metal, speed metal, blues, classical. 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. All right, guys. Years before the launch of PreventaGenix, Young had already been accused of abusing his nurse-practitioner license. 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. Because he prescribed my opiates, and I took them as prescribed, and I had no problems with it. Wear a short skirt and no panties.. 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 Experiment is a co-production of The Atlantic and WNYC Studios. Khazan: Do you feel like Jeff has done more harm than good? (Fades under.). An active and fun show following the life of FNP Jeff Young II at work and his life after work. Khazan: Christi Calles was the patient who loved listening to Stairway to Heaven.. Editing by Katherine Wells, Julia Longoria, and Denise Wills. 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. He decked out PreventaGenix with psychedelic artwork and set the stereo to loud rock. Naylor: Thats a really hard question for me to answer, because I believeour whole family believesthat he saved my husbands life. Occasionally he would glare at his ex-wife Dawn, who was in the gallery. Youngs second marriage was already in trouble by the time PreventaGenix launched, and after his divorce he quickly found new girlfriends. The cause of death, according to the letter, was a probable cardiac event due to polypharmacy, or the simultaneous use of multiple drugs.. Through his lawyer, Michael R. Working, Phillips did not return several requests for comment. His Rock Doc persona helped him connect with patients who might never have felt comfortable in a traditional doctors office. She was referred to Jeff by one of her friends. Sometimes he wore scrubs, but most of the time he had on jeans, scrub tops, and a rock T-shirt, and a doctors jacket. 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. In confessional-style interviews, Young seems to enjoy offending anyone whos shocked by his approach. Rather than call for help, Young walked away and left me on the ground, she told me. Whenever he ran into trouble, his fans would fill his social-media feeds with pledges of support. But when he suggested it the way he did, I took it seriously. 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. Naylor: They would look at me and say [Dismissively. The allegations against Young seemed to take a toll on him, though. Listen to the trailer for. Khazan: LaRhonda Scott Deberry is a 54-year-old former teacher who lives in Memphis. Its hard to hear or believe that the only provider whod ever been kind to youwho made you comfortablehad been accused of abusing other patients. 0:06. I mean, you could just kind of tell you could trust him. Whats up kids? 40 members in the TDBauto community. (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.). Every time. He has pleaded not guilty to all the charges against him. Toward the end of PreventaGenix, the nurse practitioner so many people had praised deteriorated, according to former employees. Jeff wanted what was best for his patient. [A moment of indistinct crosstalk.] Its often called the invisible illness, because, even though the pain is very real for the person experiencing it, some doctors dont take it seriously. Scott Deberry: I just didnt like all the bickering on social media and in that newspaper. [Khazan laughs.] Im very shocked. To deal with the latter, the city, like so many others in America, has become ever more reliant on opioids. Jeff refilled M.Y.s prescriptions for Percocet and Valium and gave him a new one for hydrocodone. Khazan: When I first started talking to Jeffs former patients, I thought I understood this story. This striking 6ft 3in person embodies kanji tattoos on his biceps, and the effortlessly cool personality will describe how one sees him. The scenes are meant to serve as a testament to the effectiveness of Youngs work hard, play harder ethos. Visit our website terms of use at www.wnyc.org for further information. 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. Khazan: Part of making her feel better was prescribing her opioids. 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. But I was willing to overlook all that, you know? All rights reserved. Rock Doc TV. 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. 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. (A meandering guitar melody enters the background. Despite some patients praise for Young, the evidence that he routinely walked far over that line remains alarming. He has three children, two sons, and a daughter, from his first marriage. His case before the nursing board stalled for two more years. Calles: I mean, the whole deal of him being in jail this long is completely unfair. He found diseases, for example, that other doctors missed. They dont want to touch you unless they have to touch you. Similarly, Young appeared to get the benefit of the doubt from virtually everyone. Were taking next week off to work on new stories, but well be back with new episodes starting April 15. The DEA raided Jeffs clinic and seized all of his computers and thousands of doses of the opioid hydrocodone. Jackson Sun. (Ringing leads into a soft, humming organ song.). Still, the citys southernness peeks through. Though Young at first just seemed to go along with the project, he grew more invested after the first visit, the cameraman told me. Tune in today! They liked his plainspoken approach to medicine, a profession typically associated with jargon and elitism. At this point, the people of Jackson knew the full extent of officials suspicions about Young. Jeff didnt monitor M.Y.s use, or talk to him about the danger of combining drugs. (Fades under.). Kevin: Jeff and I are full of antics. For the cosmetically minded, he hosted alcohol-fueled Botox parties. One admitted that Young had flirted with her. Hed also given her tips on how to eat better and how to lose weight. Most of these doctors werent like Jeff. Moreover, throwing some glimpse of lights to his personal life, Dr. Jeff is a happily married man. 1:32. 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. 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. Thats okay. We put out calls and emails to dozens of Jeff Youngs patients. In 2013, she was diagnosed with fibromyalgia, a chronic disorder that is usually accompanied by widespread pain and fatigue. Ballard: Most doctors dont wanna touch you, and they only wanna address one issue at a time. One employee recalled him sometimes being too drunk to see patients. Many of the people I interviewedincluding some of Youngs former patients and employeesasked to remain anonymous, often because they feared retribution at the hands of Young and his friends. Years active. 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. 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. 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. Longoria: There are many pieces to the puzzle of how opioids found their way into so many medicine cabinets. Some female patients opted for a service the clinic offered that Young called VIP status, in which they paid $500 a year to skip the waiting room and get Youngs cellphone number, one former employee said. 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