But the more time I spent thinking about it, the more I started to realize that Jeff has a point. 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. Young cries at his sons fifth-grade graduation, then explains that hes so emotional because his nurses are having their periods. But when he suggested it the way he did, I took it seriously. The Daily Beast Automated News Feed No Censorship, Just News. Patel left soon after. So it just kind of, I guess, comforted me. Additional music by Nelson Bandela (04 HIDDEN FORCES and Auddi Sun 01 131). Then it fades out.). I cant wait to start being your patient again, one woman wrote. Women were drawn to Young; he had a big house and was the first to buy everyones drink. Dont worry, my tattoos dont like you either, one image reads. Obesity and diabetes are rampant; so is chronic pain. The man says if he were ever shot, he would go to Young before going to the hospital. Sometimes the two men would fight, and broken glass would litter the floor. Thats okay. (The synthesizer takes over the harmony, traipsing up and down the melody line before it quiets and the episode ends.). 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.). Years before the launch of PreventaGenix, Young had already been accused of abusing his nurse-practitioner license. 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. Whenever he ran into trouble, his fans would fill his social-media feeds with pledges of support. But maybe, just maybe, he showed too much. I swear he didnt look at my leg for 30 seconds, and he told me exactly what it was, he says. Naylor: They just immediately hit it off. 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. Ballard: Most doctors dont wanna touch you, and they only wanna address one issue at a time. Purdue voice-over: Often, it will be an opioid medication. At this point, the people of Jackson knew the full extent of officials suspicions about Young. The next year, Jeff prescribed M.Y. 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. 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. Young seemed eager to hire lots of staff, but would end up firing them later. LeAnn Naylor: I have not had a lot of positive interactions with doctors. ), Jeff Young: Are we live? 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. His Rock Doc persona helped him connect with patients who might never have felt comfortable in a traditional doctors office. Khazan: There was this really big series of indictments that came down in 2019 where the federal government said, You know what? Hes so cute thats my brother and my best friend, Young says, giving Phillips a gentle kiss. 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. In his frequent social-media updates, he would drink and flip off the camera. Looking for Jeff Young online? 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. Young cared for all kinds of people, some of whom didnt have money or health insurance. Not all of them were into the whole edgy hard-rock thing at first. Young: Even get all gussied up for tonight. Khazan: Christi Calles was the patient who loved listening to Stairway to Heaven.. Khazan: LaRhonda was skepticalbut she was also dealing with a lot of pain. Im very shocked. Young had an active channel on Periscope, where he and Phillips drank and waxed philosophical. Of the women who returned my calls, none wanted to speak on the record under her real name, but all denied that Young had sexually abused them. Hey, are you paying attention? Listen to the trailer for. Calles: I mean, the whole deal of him being in jail this long is completely unfair. Updated at 10:28 p.m. (Topix has since been shut down.) Yeah, thats prettythats very distressing. 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. If you speak against me, she remembers him saying, youre gonna regret it.. Why would you go to this doctor? So, no, I cant say that. It was just rocked out. 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. Tanya Ballard: I think people are Just didnt like Jeff. All right, guys. Khazan: Jeff had been good to Tanya in the clinic, which was an experience that she didnt usually have with doctors. You may not like me. (The DEA declined to comment on Youngs case for this story.) He tied the knot with his beautiful wife Dr. Petra. 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. His black shirt collar didnt quite hide the tattoos on the back of his neck. In recent years, the Justice Department has started coming for unscrupulous doctors and pharmacists, too. What a great, great, great, great song! However, many of Youngs online supporters have remained loyal. They described Young to me as intelligent, as knowing almost as much as a doctor would knowor maybe even more. Am I a misogynist, or do women just like rough sex? Young asks himself in one video. You may not like my rock and roll. 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. I have found accounts of at least 40 other medical providers in the country who have been accused of exchanging sex for addictive drugs. Many medical providers are small-business owners who operate with limited oversight from authorities. Some people from the area said they had been harassed by Jeff and were afraid to speak out. No one else seemed capable of treating all her problemsthroat swelling, high blood pressure, attention issues. He messaged at least five female patients about sex and filling prescriptions, prosecutors would later say, detailing the anonymized encounters in court. In the past two decades, overdoses involving prescription opioids have killed more than 232,000 peoplethe population of Jackson several times overand the major players in the epidemic are finally being held to account. Doctors, in theory, would only prescribe to people who needed the drugs and would monitor patients so they wouldnt get addicted. The entire epidemic has been an unending story of doctors, pharmaceutical executives, and public officials blithely ignoring signs of danger. In 2013, she was diagnosed with fibromyalgia, a chronic disorder that is usually accompanied by widespread pain and fatigue. * This article has been clarified to more accurately convey the details of Gutgsell's plea. He blasted heavy metal at his private practice and filled his Instagram feed with photos of himself smoking cigars. 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. was found dead of an apparent overdose. Country music lyrics, guitar tabs/tablatures, chords source #1. 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. The half-dozen former patients who did agree to talk with me were mostly people who wanted to defend Jeff. 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. Naylor: (A long beat and a breath.) Its a shame, he told me, that Young got into so much legal trouble; think of all the people he might have helped. Young: (Just after another person laughs.) Jacksons cheeriness, though, is at odds with the populations somewhat grim physical health. The men each contributed $40,000 to the endeavor. 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. But Young was eager to let the world know that he was no typical nurse practitioner. Khazan: LaRhonda Scott Deberry is a 54-year-old former teacher who lives in Memphis. But one thing that I was really curious about is how you actually went from having opioids being a thing that existed to having opioids be a thing that existed in peoples medicine cabinets. He pleaded not guilty to the charges, and is currently in jail awaiting trial. every time. 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.*. When one video was apparently manipulated by one of his detractors and posted online, Young threatened whoever might have done it. Naylor: I felt like he was being treated unfairlythat maybe he had even been set up. I said, um, So what are yall doing after-hour? You may not like what I stand for. Young was among them. She wasnt the only patient to stick by him. All rights reserved. Another said, I was thinking of you today and how much you have helped me.. 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. With a heavy Mercy me, Phillips produces a pair of womens panties from a bag. (Young has pleaded not guilty to all charges. Similarly, Young appeared to get the benefit of the doubt from virtually everyone. 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 . No one could quite tell me who or what was responsible for Youngs transformation. 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. So it was kind of significant to me. You can all suck my d***. 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. The whole thing was Very Online. He has pleaded not guilty to all the charges against him. Many people in Jackson seemed to see themselves in Young. He graduated from Union University, an evangelical Christian school, in 1995, then earned a degree from the University of Tennessee College of Nursing in 2003. Naylor: Yes, he does. Though criminal cases against doctors and nurse practitioners like Young are still relatively rare, they are growing more common. Thank you for listening. (Somber, reflective droning notes play up. On Instagram, photos tagged #preventagenix show Young on a motorcycle, surrounded by women. His wife also loves animals and works in the same clinic. Look at me! ), Khazan: So doctors were kind of like, Okay.. How far can medical providers go in giving patients what they want? 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. 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. Khazan: LeAnns story was similar to Tanyas and LaRhondas and Christis. (Laughs heartily.). 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. His case offers a unique look at the opioid crisis. Though Young at first just seemed to go along with the project, he grew more invested after the first visit, the cameraman told me. Young would continue to prescribe drugs there for two more years. Fact-check by Michelle Ciarrocca and Jack Segelstein. (Later, Phillips pleaded guilty to threatening a Drug Enforcement Administration agent who was investigating Young. Khazan: So, like, that doctor-patient interaction and how the opioids actually got prescribed. There was no statement even made to the Feds. Calles: Yes. Natalia Ramirez: This episode of The Experiment was reported by Olga Khazan and produced by Alvin Melathe, with editing by Katherine Wells, Julia Longoria, and Denise Wills. And were gonna send a message. They called it the single largest crackdown on prescription opioids in history. I had had back surgery, and I really had real problems that no one wanted to listen to me about. And you can kind of look at it like locker-room talk . Yeah. The sharpteeth charge through and run into the rock spire and fall down. 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. Ballard: I dont believe Jeff overprescribed medication. In fact, he avoided doctors at all costs. 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. Khazan: But she did remember this one hint shed had that something might be wrong in Jeffs office. (Stephanie asked me to use a pseudonym for her because she doesnt want her name associated with the case.) Khazan: When I first started talking to Jeffs former patients, I thought I understood this story. This episode was reported by Olga Khazan and produced by Alvin Melathe. (Court records do not contain the names of Youngs alleged victims.) (A long moment of music with no narration before it fades out. When one patient told Young over Facebook Messenger that she was in shitty health and about to jump off a bridge, he prescribed her a cocktail of several different drugs, including fentanyl. In an email to The Atlantic, Working said that when it came to Phillipss actions, there was no direct threat. 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. But she also told me the story of her ex-husband. 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 DEA raided Jeffs clinic and seized all of his computers and thousands of doses of the opioid hydrocodone. Throughout the opioid epidemic, a distressing number of doctors have seen a perverse opportunity in Americans suffering. But it played [Emphasizing.] All of his patients I saw when I would come would be all white. 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. 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. Well all be killed., It helped that Young had prominent friends he could call on for help. ], Oh, you look fine to me.. Use the hashtag #TheExperimentPodcast, or write to us at theexperiment@theatlantic.com. So what, I dont go get fucked up at the country club with the rest of the stiffs here in J-Town? Young grabs them and takes a big whiff. Young is . 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. His lawyer also declined to answer any specific allegations. 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. Scott Deberry: Everyone in his office was all white. Khazan: I talked to many of Jeffs patients. The clinic sat on a quiet road crammed with other medical practicesa sleep doctor, a dentist, a nephrologist, an orthodontisteach in its own brick McMansion. Khazan: LeAnn Naylor was the secretary for the mayor of Jackson when she started seeing Jeff as a patient. Though both she and Reaves said Young should be held accountable for anything he did wrong, Stephanie told me that she forgave him. But as I talked to more patients, they started saying things that really surprised me. There were reports of after-hours partiespossibly of Jeff having sex with his patients. 2,760 Followers, 1,655 Following, 2,046 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Jeff Young II (JY2) #RockDoc (@jeffyoungii) 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. If a patient would text him a compliment, he would blast it all over Facebook, one former employee told me. But the allegations against him point toward what can be permissible, even celebrated, in a medical system built on profit. This distinction is important, because while nurse practitioners are functioning in the same capacity as physiciansordering and interpreting Phillips, Youngs best friend, would often stop by the clinic to hang out and drink, according to former employees. Why didnt anyone try to put a stop to this? I just had a lot of questions about how could this happen., Further reading: The Hard-Partying, Rock-Obsessed Nurse at the Center of a Massive Opioid Bust. The week that followed Martin Luther King Jr.s assassination was revolutionaryso why was it nearly forgotten? Longoria: This week, Olga Khazan peers into an internet portal to try to find one answer to how on earth we found ourselves in an opioid crisis. Not that theyre not watching internet porn. Off camera, Young allegedly prescribed 1.4 million addictive pills and had sex with female patients. 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. 40 members in the TDBauto community. Khazan: Thirty-one doctors and seven other nurse practitioners were busted in that same Justice Department sweep that caught Jeff. We got a very, uh, important (Fades under.). Longoria: Pharmaceutical companies marketed these drugs aggressively to doctors. (A shudder, a gasp, then clapping and bubbling evolve into a background track.). The Experiment is a co-production of The Atlantic and WNYC Studios. (Fades under.). All of them said that they didnt think Jeff sexually abused them. (The two clap each others backs in a half-hug.). Once again, there was an outpouring of support. I just didnt feel comfortable. (The background music shifts tone dramatically to a wispy, light, contemplative energy.). FNP Jeff Young Jr. shares his life with his fans and promotes a healthy and fun lifestyle to make you "young" at heart! 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. Young: (Moaning.) 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. Occasionally he would glare at his ex-wife Dawn, who was in the gallery. Calles: And I mean, he didnt dress like your average doctor. And the word that kept coming up when people described Jeff is comfortable. Young was late to the office almost every day. They are often too under-resourced and understaffed to keep a watchful eye on all medical providers. Longoria: Olga Khazan is a staff writer at The Atlantic whos been covering the opioid epidemic for the last seven years. In confessional-style interviews, Young seems to enjoy offending anyone whos shocked by his approach. Automated News Feed Subreddit No Censorship, Just News. 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. I am a, uh, nurse practitioner. I asked to speak with him for this story, but because of a gag order on the case, his lawyer declined interviews with me. Young got married, then quickly got divorced, according to several people who knew him then. A woman Ill call Stephanie developed a friendship with Young a few years ago when she was regularly seeing him for swelling in her throat. Khazan: The Rock Doc, Jeff Young, has been in jail for almost two years, awaiting trial. 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 . Kevin: (In a Periscope video.) Patients say the Rock Doc helped them like no one else could. I talked to him a couple of weeks ago. RockDocTV Show. She doesnt believe the allegations against him, and chalks them up to pure jealousy. After he opened the new clinic, Youngs sexual behavior with patients allegedly continued, as did the towns willingness to ignore it. Jeff refilled M.Y.s prescriptions for Percocet and Valium and gave him a new one for hydrocodone. (The music crescendos before playing out into the break. Moreover, throwing some glimpse of lights to his personal life, Dr. Jeff is a happily married man. Calles: I really am so thankful that he suggested that to me, because if he hadnt have, I probably wouldve never done it, because I wouldnt take anybody else seriously enough to even think about doing it. It was a story her daughter told her about a time she got sick. They liked his plainspoken approach to medicine, a profession typically associated with jargon and elitism. (Soft percussive synthesizer music plays.). Yes. 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. 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.) The allegations, when they started coming, though, really started coming fast. One admitted that Young had flirted with her. Hes just laid back. Hed also given her tips on how to eat better and how to lose weight. 1986-present. Khazan: I was wondering if your ex-husband still supports Jeff or thinks he was a good medical provider. (The music opens up into a technologic rainforest as synthesizers mimic birdsong.). (Lo-fi synthesizer music plays up. 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. Naylor: Thats a really hard question for me to answer, because I believeour whole family believesthat he saved my husbands life. Khazan: A lot of them, unfortunately, went with it. Youre just probably not feeling good. But they never believed us. 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