I mean, he had his doctors lab coat on. But when he suggested it the way he did, I took it seriously. I mean, if somebody pats you on the back, that aint coming on to you. (Young has denied that hed had sex with the patient who appeared to be drugged.). Young would continue to prescribe drugs there for two more years. Khazan: When Jeffs indictment became public, LeAnnlike many of his former patientswas suspicious at first. Strippers, tattoo artists, and rock-band groupies saw a kindred spirit in Young and came to him as patients. Young seemed eager to hire lots of staff, but would end up firing them later. He has pleaded not guilty to all the charges against him. 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. Listen to the trailer for. Khazan: Does that change how you feel about him? Have you ever been to a doctor and you just didnt feel comfortable? [Laughs.] 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. They just, like, keep their distance from you. Kevin: And were going to ask our friendsour warriors out thereto put these folks in their place, because, you know, the Golden Rule. Young did seem to be famous enough in Jackson, however, to reinforce his own grand vision of himself. Toward the end of PreventaGenix, the nurse practitioner so many people had praised deteriorated, according to former employees. You may not like my piercings. They didnt play Stairway to Heaven or have Periscope accounts. Naylor: I felt like he was being treated unfairlythat maybe he had even been set up. Khazan: He worked in the timber industry, and one day at work, he got overheated and disoriented. Young: All right. 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. (Later, Phillips pleaded guilty to threatening a Drug Enforcement Administration agent who was investigating Young. Though criminal cases against doctors and nurse practitioners like Young are still relatively rare, they are growing more common. 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. Less than half answered. (Fades under.). Through his lawyer, Michael R. Working, Phillips did not return several requests for comment. But none of these barred the Rock Doc from getting drugs into the hands of patients. Purdue ad doctor: They dont wear out. 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. It surprised her, but Jeff was attuned to all that. One January morning, officers swarmed the road outside the PreventaGenix building, guns drawn. The week that followed Martin Luther King Jr.s assassination was revolutionaryso why was it nearly forgotten? Were small enough where we still talk, Jerry Gist, who was the mayor at the time, told me. 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. Khazan: Do you feel like Jeff has done more harm than good? Calles: I dont know. Khazan: Which was exactly what she liked about him. He was the casual party guy, not the stuffy doctor. And now we see the result. 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. I am very nervous about it, she replied. Will be glad to take the balance out of your ass. To another, Jeff asked, You want to come by for a checkup tomorrow? I just didnt feel comfortable. Young: Listen, I am for the patient. (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.) But the more time I spent thinking about it, the more I started to realize that Jeff has a point. (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.). This is just gonna be a little freeze spray first. 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. Pharmacists began to refuse to fill his prescriptions. He pleaded not guilty to the . Listen to the trailer for Holy Week. His Rock Doc persona helped him connect with patients who might never have felt comfortable in a traditional doctors office. The daughter, Melody, actually works in her dad's vet clinic. Furthermore, Dr. Young along with his wife and daughter Melody works at his clinic. Lax regulations played a role. Federal prosecutors who charged him in a massive opioid bust say he overprescribed painkillers, often for money, notoriety, and sexual favors.. Similarly, Young appeared to get the benefit of the doubt from virtually everyone. Jeffrey Youngs patients say he helped them like nobody else could, but prosecutors indicted him following a huge painkiller bust. Young: So, the, uh, the sinister ministerthat would be me (Fades under again.). 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. It was just rocked out. There were reports of after-hours partiespossibly of Jeff having sex with his patients. 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. 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. Early in the epidemic, Purdue gave doctors OxyContin fishing hats and swing-music CDs to encourage them to prescribe more of the drug. Years active. The sharpteeth charge through and run into the rock spire and fall down. One story I found in a letter from Jeffs nursing-board case stuck with me. I mean, you could just kind of tell you could trust him. Despite some patients praise for Young, the evidence that he routinely walked far over that line remains alarming. The week that followed Martin Luther King Jr.s assassination was revolutionaryso why was it nearly forgotten? He blasted heavy metal at his private practice and filled his Instagram feed with photos of himself smoking cigars. When I visited the clinic shortly before the hearing, Young had just finished up with a patient. By 2012, Young was allegedly supplying testosterone without a clear medical reason to high schoolers who wanted to bulk up. November 7, 2018, marked the beginning of legal repercussions for Young. Khazan: The Rock Doc, Jeff Young, has been in jail for almost two years, awaiting trial. Khazan: So Ive written a million stories about this. 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. Whether or not Young is convicted, the perverse incentives for doctors to see patients for short visits and to prescribe too many unnecessary drugs will remain. Yeah. (The music changes tone, becoming a little more up-tempo and treble-heavy.). Even now, I cant say that. Most of these doctors werent like Jeff. All rights reserved. (One employee, Karla Wright, testified later that she had never seen Young have sex with women at the office. 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. Weeks after the indictment made national news, the clinic was packed with people coming and going, one woman who worked in a building with a view of the parking lot told me. The man says if he were ever shot, he would go to Young before going to the hospital. You may not like my rock and roll. 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. Nearly a fifth of the citys residents live below the poverty line, and many are afflicted with chronic diseases that often accompany the stresses of a low income. Off camera, Young allegedly prescribed 1.4 million addictive pills and had sex with female patients. On Instagram, photos tagged #preventagenix show Young on a motorcycle, surrounded by women. He even convinced her to get weight-loss surgery. Nurse practitioner Jeff Young, known as the "Rock Doc," and . Khazan: But the pilot also showed the other side of Jeff. Khazan: Christi Calles was the patient who loved listening to Stairway to Heaven.. He would sometimes brag about having sex on his lunch break, sharing with his staff pictures of his conquests, three employees said. He tried to ignore it, but when he woke up the next morning, LeAnn noticed he still looked really bad. 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. I mean, I worked at a bank for 15 years, and when youve worked at a bank and youve cashed checks, you have to judge people in two seconds. But that did not put a stop to Youngs ambitions. Naylor: They just immediately hit it off. Young had an active channel on Periscope, where he and Phillips drank and waxed philosophical. Another said, I was thinking of you today and how much you have helped me.. Others accused me of seeking to discredit Young and slander his name. Some of his patients were police officers whom he would occasionally ask for favors. 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. As so often happens with irresponsible medical providers, Youngs popularity in the communityalong with an indifferent, slow-moving bureaucracyallowed him to operate for half a decade despite initial warning signs and then multiple arrests and investigations. 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. But you know what? You know that. 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. Its a small town; people talk. I told him about this podcastexplained to him what a podcast was. He wasnt in pain. He has been arrested several times, though not convicted, for assaulting women. It moved so slowly in punishing drug-addicted nurses that some were able to get new jobs and steal narcotics while under investigation, an eastern Tennessee news station, WJHL, found in 2016. 0:06. Thrash metal, heavy metal, speed metal, blues, classical. 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. 1:07. He decked out PreventaGenix with psychedelic artwork and set the stereo to loud rock. As the court spent two days scrutinizing his years of alleged misdeeds, he sat mostly silently. Longoria: And what part of the crisis were you most focused on? Reitz says he and his girlfriend came up with the unwieldy namea futuristic combination of prevent and genetics. You ready? Young: Whats up, my friend? (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. (Fades under.). Young was by no means nationally or even regionally known. (Droning music, reflective and cool, plays.). But it played [Emphasizing.] Hey! In 2012, Young was working at a cardiology practice in Jackson when, with a consultant named Rich Reitz and cardiologist named Dharmesh Patel, he set up a side business giving talks to doctors about treating heart attacks and strokes. Young was among them. The clinic sat on a quiet road crammed with other medical practicesa sleep doctor, a dentist, a nephrologist, an orthodontisteach in its own . In addition to steroid shots, Young prescribed her oxycodone, Xanax, and Adderall for her various medical issues. In an email to The Atlantic, Working said that when it came to Phillipss actions, there was no direct threat. All of them said that they didnt think Jeff sexually abused them. Occasionally he would glare at his ex-wife Dawn, who was in the gallery. I mean, you wouldve thought they were giving away meds for free, to be honest. Tune in today! The men each contributed $40,000 to the endeavor. (Patel did not respond to requests for comment.) ET on January 28, 2021. But the board has a history of letting suspicious providers go on practicing for years. And the consequences might have gone beyond sexual abuse and addiction. You may not like what I stand for. Naylor: And I remember him saying, Bring him to the office. His vision was, evidently, to one day launch a reality series of the same name. Yet he still attracted patients at GeneXis prior to his detention hearing in May 2019. In his early adulthood, he was a straitlaced young Republican who had short hair and wore a tie much of the time, one of his former co-workers told me. I didnt know that. 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. In 2018, a woman told police that Young put his hands down her pants during an office visit, but that apparently led to nothing. Naylor: (A sharp inhale.) I am a, uh, nurse practitioner. Unnamed guest: I cant believe he stabbed himself (Fades under.). Its a shame, he told me, that Young got into so much legal trouble; think of all the people he might have helped. (A snare hit plays, and the music changes tone again. And doctorswho work in what is, after all, a service professionsometimes feel that its easier to pacify the patient than to push back. She appreciated that he asked about her grandkids. 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. His small fiefdom of followers created a mini echo chamber, feeding back approval and encouragement. She wasnt the only patient to stick by him. 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. Jeffrey Young wanted to give you a real look inside his clinic. And most doctors youve seen, they give off this persona as like, Im too cool. Calles: Doctors judged me because of my weight. One employee recalled him sometimes being too drunk to see patients. She would get phone calls at her house, answer, and hear only strange whispers, she said in a court hearing. Khazan: The Rock Doc, Jeff Young, has been in jail for almost two years, awaiting trial. Khazan: LaRhonda didnt know anything about all of thisthe nursing board didnt make their investigation publicbut she was following him on social media. Khazan: In 2016, Jeff tried to broadcast his world even more widely. I expected to hear lots of horror stories of abuse and mistreatment. We thought we would close out the daythe third Periscope of the daywith a little fireside chat. (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.). And Im like, Oh. [A beat.] This is The Experiment, a show about our unfinished country. And hed stream from inside the clinic sometimes. 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. Khazan: LaRhonda Scott Deberry is a 54-year-old former teacher who lives in Memphis. She said, He latches on to young single mothers, and he rushes in and wants toquote-unquotesave them.. Once again, there was an outpouring of support. His wife also loves animals and works in the same clinic. (The two clap each others backs in a half-hug.). Being around Young made her feel emotionally safe, she said. I cant say for sure what the right course of treatment for LaRhonda was, and where opioids fit into that. On my trip, I strolled by a glass case near the federal courthouse that held a large Bible opened to the Gospel of John. Occupation (s) Guitarist. Heres what I can tell you. He gave Young total control over what was recorded. 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. LeAnn Naylor: I have not had a lot of positive interactions with doctors. Longoria: There are many pieces to the puzzle of how opioids found their way into so many medicine cabinets. To one patient, who he prescribed hydrocodone, amphetamines, and fentanyl, he said, I accept all insurance. 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. 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. (A moment of narrative silence. 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 . This ingratiating tendency allegedly extended to handing out prescriptions. And that was not the case at all. 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. Sound design by David Herman. In 2013, she was diagnosed with fibromyalgia, a chronic disorder that is usually accompanied by widespread pain and fatigue. Stephanie had been in an abusive relationship and dealt with a slew of other traumas. No one else seemed capable of treating all her problemsthroat swelling, high blood pressure, attention issues. Longoria: The result is that more than 450,000 people are dead from overdose in the last 20 years. He didnt pull any punches, she said. 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. From that day on, he saw him for everything. Thats okay. 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. Jackson Sun. (The music opens up into a technologic rainforest as synthesizers mimic birdsong.). They entered the office and ordered the clinics staffers to lie on the floor. Calles: I mean, you have killersmurderers, I meanthat have not been in jail this long. He found diseases, for example, that other doctors missed. (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.) Trial dates have been set for "Rock Doc" Jeffery Young, his supervising physicians, and two more medical professionals recently indicted on additional drug trafficking charges. Alperovichs lawyer declined to comment.). We cant live if hes out, she said. To get from pharma lab to medicine cabinet, the drug needed to pass through one of the most sacred spaces in America. 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. Were tracing your fucking account now, so you better be prepared to reap the whirlwind of your bullshit., As he gathered followers, Young began to deploy his social-media presence to hunt down and intimidate his former employees and ex-friends, some of whom told me they felt threatened by Young and his followers. Some of Youngs dalliances with his patient-friends similarly took a dark turn. Theres this moment in one of the videos that I keep thinking about: Young: (Over more pool filtration.) On April 17, 2019, officials swept through Appalachia, charging 53 medical professionals, including doctors, nurses, and pharmacists. Thats okay. I had a brother that passed away, and when he passed away, his friends played that for him at his funeral. (Soft percussive synthesizer music plays.). It feels claustrophobic.). Another compared Young to a brother and called my reporting disrespectful.. 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. His black shirt collar didnt quite hide the tattoos on the back of his neck. She doesnt think Young was the one who drugged her, but she believes nevertheless that she was drugged. (A shudder, a gasp, then clapping and bubbling evolve into a background track.). Scott Deberry: Everyone in his office was all white. Brown hair, green eyes, amazing body. He smells them again. And Jeff, sitting at the center of it, covered in tattooshe had a sort of unlikely charisma too. Khazan: He had an account on Periscope, the live-streaming site. (A meandering guitar melody enters the background. Though both she and Reaves said Young should be held accountable for anything he did wrong, Stephanie told me that she forgave him. Its heavy, and it loops. There is a friendliness, too, that one associates with the South. In fact, he avoided doctors at all costs. Prosecutors say Young used his rebellious persona to take advantage of patients, distributing highly addictive painkillers on demand and in large quantities for profitand, often, his own sexual gratification. The cameraman who shot the pilot, who requested anonymity because he doesnt want to be associated with Youngs case, heard about Young through a mutual friend and visited him several times to shoot footage for what he hoped could become a reality show. Khazan: But she did remember this one hint shed had that something might be wrong in Jeffs office. I dont wear underwear. Together, they are the parents of three children and have seven grandchildren. 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