Many people in Jackson seemed to see themselves in Young. Jackson Sun. Phillips popped off to a friend.). He exhibited a certain tenderness as he filled syringes and sutured skin. I dont like him asking out my daughter But even then, I still went to him, and my ex-husband still went to him. Most of these doctors werent like Jeff. Young neither admits nor denies the following allegations, Tracy Alcock, a lawyer with the state health department, said at the hearing, but he acknowledges that the departments proof would show the following: From August 2013 to November 2016, Young prescribed controlled substances in amounts and for durations that were not medically necessary, advisable, or justified for a diagnosed condition. The board put his license on probation for two years, during which time he could not prescribe certain Schedule II or Schedule III controlled substances, including drugs such as oxycodone, fentanyl, Vicodin, and Adderall. I mean, you wouldve thought they were giving away meds for free, to be honest. Rudins lawyer did not respond to a request for comment. #saturdays at noon est to hear #nikkidarling chat with the #RockDoc Jeff Young II #musicmeetmedicine Starts at 12pm est. One other factor might help account for his long, illicit career: the sheer number of patients who stood by him, almost to the very end. Naylor: (A long beat and a breath.) In 2014, Jeff started seeing a patient with the initials M.Y. You could see, almost, when you were talking to him, he was listeningand he was thumping that pen to the beat of the music. But, in theory, there should have been a check on all this. Listen to the trailer for Holy Week. They are often too under-resourced and understaffed to keep a watchful eye on all medical providers. Find Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and TikTok profiles, images and more on IDCrawl - free people search website. Khazan: There was this really big series of indictments that came down in 2019 where the federal government said, You know what? I dont. She doesnt think Young was the one who drugged her, but she believes nevertheless that she was drugged. In 2016, Young, who was 42 at the time, invited a cameraman to shoot a pilot episode about his life as a nurse practitioner in Jackson, Tennessee. It feels claustrophobic.). 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. Visit our website terms of use at www.wnyc.org for further information. 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. Occupation (s) Guitarist. Yes. Young was a people pleaser, as one former employee described him. And that was not the case at all. (The synthesizer takes over the harmony, traipsing up and down the melody line before it quiets and the episode ends.). Make and Model: The only Billboard Hot 100 entry for new wave greats The Cars with an automotive title to match their band name . I expected to hear lots of horror stories of abuse and mistreatment. Fact-check by Michelle Ciarrocca and Jack Segelstein. Ballard: I dont believe Jeff overprescribed medication. (Ringing leads into a soft, humming organ song.). Khazan: Tanya had a different theory about where all the criticism was actually coming from. Once again, there was an outpouring of support. Young: (Over the sound of a pool-filtration system.) Khazan: He had an account on Periscope, the live-streaming site. But the more time I spent thinking about it, the more I started to realize that Jeff has a point. This social-media stardom appears to have helped inoculate him against concerns that his loose approach to medicine could harm anyone. We thought we would close out the daythe third Periscope of the daywith a little fireside chat. Khazan: Like, for example, here he is sniffing a pair of womens underwear with his sidekick, a friend named Kevin. He seemed, to his former employees, constitutionally unable to deny patients the pills they wanted, even if it was the last thing they needed. Longoria: There are many pieces to the puzzle of how opioids found their way into so many medicine cabinets. Khazan: LeAnn Naylor was the secretary for the mayor of Jackson when she started seeing Jeff as a patient. FNP Jeff Young Jr. shares his life with his fans and promotes a healthy and fun lifestyle to make you "young" at heart! Later that month, M.Y. The men each contributed $40,000 to the endeavor. 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. (Somber, reflective droning notes play up. Even now, I cant say that. Part of the judges reasoning was that Youngs Facebook posts showed a propensity for violence., Young continued blogging from jail, somehow managing to write a few posts for a website that promotes medical providers rights to prescribe opioids freely. Khazan: The Rock Doc, Jeff Young, has been in jail for almost two years, awaiting trial. 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. There is a friendliness, too, that one associates with the South. 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. Khazan: In his Periscope videos, Jeff insisted it was all fun and games, and people were just criticizing him because of his style. Hed wear Halloween masks and make off-color jokes. Actually very nice, yeah. As Young collected more tattoos and befriended more local bands, he began to attract a certain clientele. They go on working. Brown hair, green eyes, amazing body. He smells them again. Music by Tasty Morsels and Nelson Nance. He never admitted to anything that would make him look bad. (Youngs attorney claimed in court that only about 25 percent of his patients were.) She became his patient around 2016. Young, 43, a Tennessee nurse practitioner who called himself 'Rock Doc' and once piloted . Jeff didnt monitor M.Y.s use, or talk to him about the danger of combining drugs. She texted Jeff. She was referred to Jeff by one of her friends. Young began arriving at the clinic smelling rancid, with greasy hair, and the clinics money problems mounted. Patients say the Rock Doc helped them like no one else could. But Young was eager to let the world know that he was no typical nurse practitioner. LeAnn said that Jeff stayed for hours, changing IV bags and chatting with him. Minutes after finishing the second drink, Stephanie fell face-first onto the floor. Know his wife, age, net worth, family, Longoria: Olga Khazan is a staff writer at The Atlantic whos been covering the opioid epidemic for the last seven years. 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.). Young: So, the, uh, the sinister ministerthat would be me (Fades under again.). Am I a misogynist, or do women just like rough sex? Young asks himself in one video. And Jeff, sitting at the center of it, covered in tattooshe had a sort of unlikely charisma too. You may not like my tattoos. Its heavy, and it loops. This is Aalto. Khazan: In 2016, Jeff tried to broadcast his world even more widely. Kevin: Jeff and I are full of antics. She would wake up to find that all her car doors had been opened overnight. You may not like my piercings. I had a lot of Why on earth? questions, the Atlantic reporter Olga Khazan says. Khazan: Jeff and his friend Kevin would often head to Periscope to defend themselves. 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. This striking 6ft 3in person embodies kanji tattoos on his biceps, and the effortlessly cool personality will describe how one sees him. Young would continue to prescribe drugs there for two more years. The scenes are meant to serve as a testament to the effectiveness of Youngs work hard, play harder ethos. Reitz says he and his girlfriend came up with the unwieldy namea futuristic combination of prevent and genetics. I dont wear underwear. Jeff wanted what was best for his patient. (Later, Phillips pleaded guilty to threatening a Drug Enforcement Administration agent who was investigating Young. The first move of any significant consequence for Young came in early 2017, when the DEA raided the clinic. He was found in his bedroom, where the ambulance service discovered an empty syringe under his pillow and empty pill bottles on his bedside table that had been filled that month. (Dawn did not press charges at the time, and she declined to speak with me for this story.). He tried to ignore it, but when he woke up the next morning, LeAnn noticed he still looked really bad. 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. Young appeared to operate more subtly. You can find Olgas written reporting on the Rock Doc at our website: http://www.theatlantic.com/experiment. For the occasion of his detention hearing, Young wore a cerulean suit and a comb-over. The waiting room often overflowed with patients. And were gonna send a message. They called it the single largest crackdown on prescription opioids in history. It was a story her daughter told her about a time she got sick. 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. No one else seemed capable of treating all her problemsthroat swelling, high blood pressure, attention issues. 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. On Instagram, photos tagged #preventagenix show Young on a motorcycle, surrounded by women. 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. (The music changes tone, becoming a little more up-tempo and treble-heavy.). Khazan: I was wondering if your ex-husband still supports Jeff or thinks he was a good medical provider. The allegations, when they started coming, though, really started coming fast. Naylor: And I remember him saying, Bring him to the office. Additional music by Nelson Bandela (04 HIDDEN FORCES and Auddi Sun 01 131). Despite some patients praise for Young, the evidence that he routinely walked far over that line remains alarming. (A snare hit plays, and the music changes tone again. Automated News Feed Subreddit No Censorship, Just News. The week that followed Martin Luther King Jr.s assassination was revolutionaryso why was it nearly forgotten? Khazan: LaRhonda Scott Deberry is a 54-year-old former teacher who lives in Memphis. Purdue voice-over: Often, it will be an opioid medication. 13.6k members in the AutoNewspaper community. 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. JACKSON, Tenn. The end is nowhere close for three medical professionals charged in a federal opioid crackdown earlier this year. As the nursing boards investigation of Young inched along, another agency launched its own probe into the Rock Doc. Khazan: Part of making her feel better was prescribing her opioids. And now we see the result. One January morning, officers swarmed the road outside the PreventaGenix building, guns drawn. 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. You can all suck my d***. Even after this, she returned to Young as a patient. At other times, PreventaGenix staffers would stumble upon a woman he had brought to the clinic the previous night. You may not like what I stand for. Its gonna be a little cold, all right? He wasnt in pain. It was just rocked out. Jeffrey Young wanted to give you a real look inside his clinic. 1:07. In February 2016, he texted one of his opioid patients, a police officer named Jay Green. Young and Phillips, both longtime musicians, reveal that theyre working on some rap songs about Youngs haters, then ponder how to do gang signs. 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. RockDocTV Show. Young got married, then quickly got divorced, according to several people who knew him then. (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. Once his colleagues were out of the business, Young began crafting a persona based around rock music and hard living. Sound design by David Herman. Khazan: He worked in the timber industry, and one day at work, he got overheated and disoriented. 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. (Soft percussive synthesizer music plays.). 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. Patel left soon after. Calles: You could just tell by the demeanor that that was there. Through his lawyer, Michael R. Working, Phillips did not return several requests for comment. The week that followed Martin Luther King Jr.s assassination was revolutionaryso why was it nearly forgotten? (Fades under.). (She did not want to be named for fear of jeopardizing her business.) [Khazan laughs, then Calles emphasizes each word that follows.] Occasionally he would glare at his ex-wife Dawn, who was in the gallery. Im like, Im as outspoken as he is. One admitted that Young had flirted with her. 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. 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. They painted a picture of the kind of medical office where you might actually want to hang out. And the consequences might have gone beyond sexual abuse and addiction. After he opened the new clinic, Youngs sexual behavior with patients allegedly continued, as did the towns willingness to ignore it. 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. Hes just laid back. Five other medical providers, just in Jackson, were indicted too. Kevin: (In a Periscope video.) 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. Lax regulations played a role. Khazan: The videos were sarcastic and loose, intimate in their own bizarre way. Were going to take the worst of the worst. Dr. Jeff is married to Petra Mickova Petra though she is his second wife. 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. In August 2015, Young prescribed MY what the letter calls a dangerous combination of an opioid, a benzodiazepine, and a muscle relaxant. And you can kind of look at it like locker-room talk . Were small enough where we still talk, Jerry Gist, who was the mayor at the time, told me. Calles: Oh my gosh. Copyright 2021 The Atlantic and New York Public Radio. Young is . We got a very, uh, important (Fades under.). The nurse practitioner Jeffrey Young produced a reality-TV pilot in which he branded himself "the Rock Doc., The week that followed Martin Luther King Jr.s assassination was revolutionaryso why was it nearly forgotten? 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