People who criticized Young swiftly became his enemies. 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. Khazan: LaRhonda didnt know anything about all of thisthe nursing board didnt make their investigation publicbut she was following him on social media. To one patient, who he prescribed hydrocodone, amphetamines, and fentanyl, he said, I accept all insurance. 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. I dont wear underwear. Aw, shit! Years active. 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. Other female patients checkout sheets simply said No charge., Though he portrayed himself as harmlessly vulgar, Young could, in fact, get violent with women. He was like, No, we do Botox and stuff for people, and dah-dah-dah-dah. The camera follows Young as he treats patients, talks on a local radio station, dances with women at a club, and brags about drinking. Find Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and TikTok profiles, images and more on IDCrawl - free people search website. November 7, 2018, marked the beginning of legal repercussions for Young. 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. (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.). Khazan: I talked to many of Jeffs patients. 40 members in the TDBauto community. Young had an active channel on Periscope, where he and Phillips drank and waxed philosophical. He gave Young total control over what was recorded. Young would call these liaisons nooners or say it was tap-that-ass Tuesday, according to court testimony. American doctors went on to prescribe opioids at much higher rates than their counterparts in other countries. Khazan: Even LaRhonda, the retired teacher who had soured on Jeff, told me that Jeff was the rare provider who would take her pain seriously. Dan Reaves, a local radio host on whose show Young occasionally appeared as part of a marketing plan, described Young as medically gifted. You may not like my rock and roll. Sometimes the two men would fight, and broken glass would litter the floor. The grosser side. Theres clear evidence that opioid manufacturers knew the drugs were addictive, yet they marketed them aggressively anyway. You may not like what I stand for. Jackson, a city of about 70,000 people, looks like almost any midsize patch of America that sprang up sometime after the Pilgrims but before Microsoft. Case 18-11780-BLS Doc 45 Filed 08/02/18 Page 1 of 1041. They are often too under-resourced and understaffed to keep a watchful eye on all medical providers. Khazan: I had a lot of Why on earth? questions: Why would he do this? The manufacturers and distributors of prescription opioids have been sued by dozens of states and municipalities for the damage theyve allegedly caused. You could see, almost, when you were talking to him, he was listeningand he was thumping that pen to the beat of the music. Its light and upbeat.). The allegations, when they started coming, though, really started coming fast. Longoria: Pharmaceutical companies marketed these drugs aggressively to doctors. 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. Even after this, she returned to Young as a patient. (Young has denied that hed had sex with the patient who appeared to be drugged.). Jeffery Dale Young known as Dr. Jeff Young or Dr. Jeff is American Veterinarian and a reality TV actor. Young became known for putting drugs into the hands of almost anyone who asked. They described Young to me as intelligent, as knowing almost as much as a doctor would knowor maybe even more. He would chitchat with his patients, ask them about their latest tattoos. It doesnt sound like much of a sella middle-aged man doling out medical advice in a city midway between Memphis and Nashville. He refilled MYs prescriptions for Percocet and Valium, and also prescribed him hydrocodone. Rather than suffer any real consequences for his allegedly reckless prescribing, Young continued to work as a medical provider for years. Khazan: This is Tanya Ballard. 2,760 Followers, 1,655 Following, 2,046 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Jeff Young II (JY2) #RockDoc (@jeffyoungii) After the hearing, Young was jailed pending his trial, which is currently scheduled to be held this spring. 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. I didnt know that. Obesity and diabetes are rampant; so is chronic pain. Khazan: The first time I watched this video, I just heard Jeff making excuses. 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: When Jeffs indictment became public, LeAnnlike many of his former patientswas suspicious at first. A restaurant called the Little Rebel displayed a Confederate flag. (The music crescendos before playing out into the break. The Tennessee Department of Health will not release audio recordings from a state investigation of "Rock Doc" Jeffrey W. Young II, a nurse practitioner who was allowed to stay in business . Stephanie would accompany him to different clubs in the area, and wherever he went, she said, he was surrounded by hired bodyguards and friends she called bouncers, who were around for the times when he drank too much or flirted with women and got into fights with their boyfriends. Thats okay. Thats okay. The week that followed Martin Luther King Jr.s assassination was revolutionaryso why was it nearly forgotten? Once again, there was an outpouring of support. 14:46. I dont wear underwear. Kevin: (In a Periscope video.) Khazan: Christi Calles was the patient who loved listening to Stairway to Heaven.. 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 . 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.). Fullington, who was also let go, told me she got a threatening call from Young. Rachel Fullington, an early employee of Youngs, told me Young wanted the clinics atmosphere to be loose and fun, while the others wanted it to be more buttoned-up. Naylor: I felt like he was being treated unfairlythat maybe he had even been set up. You know that. In 2018, a woman told police that Young put his hands down her pants during an office visit, but that apparently led to nothing. This is just gonna be a little freeze spray first. #coffeeplease #noontime #rockrageradio www.rockrageradio.com And it was immediately clear that he is not your average medical provider. All right, guys. Watching this makes me really sad, one YouTube user commented on the Rock Doc pilot in 2019. ), (The intro to a rock song plays, with a driving, pulsing beat. And people in the pilot gave testimonials saying as much. Khazan: Or stitch someone up after they cut themselves on a wine glass. And even then, I didnt want to hear it. 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. All of them said that they didnt think Jeff sexually abused them. Young: Listen, I am for the patient. I have found accounts of at least 40 other medical providers in the country who have been accused of exchanging sex for addictive drugs. 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. Aggressive marketing is one piece of it. [Laughs lightly.] In one scene, he and his best friend, a pharmaceutical representative named John Kevin Phillips, broadcast themselves on the video-streaming app Periscope. He raises a glass filled with red wine, as if in a toast. Listen to the trailer for, The Hard-Partying, Rock-Obsessed Nurse at the Center of a Massive Opioid Bust. Thats very distressing Yeah, Im shocked, you know? Off camera, Young allegedly prescribed 1.4 million addictive pills and had sex with female patients. But it played [Emphasizing.] One admitted that Young had flirted with her. (Endo denied the allegations.) 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. #saturdays at noon est to hear #nikkidarling chat with the #RockDoc Jeff Young II #musicmeetmedicine Starts at 12pm est. Copyright 2021 The Atlantic and New York Public Radio. And the consequences might have gone beyond sexual abuse and addiction. Were taking next week off to work on new stories, but well be back with new episodes starting April 15. Young was indicted on drug-trafficking charges in April 2019. 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. You need to be a certain kind of person to want a reality-TV show about yourself. This social-media stardom appears to have helped inoculate him against concerns that his loose approach to medicine could harm anyone. 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. (The music opens up into a technologic rainforest as synthesizers mimic birdsong.). Scott Deberry: When I told him, I said, Every time I go to a doctor and tell them I feel like I have the flu, they look at me as if Im delusional.. I mean, if somebody pats you on the back, that aint coming on to you. Khazan: LaRhonda Scott Deberry is a 54-year-old former teacher who lives in Memphis. ), Youngs sexual desires and need to please patients allegedly soon blurred together. 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