Nurse generally known as ‘Rock Doc’ prescribed opioids in return for intercourse

A Tennessee nurse practitioner who referred to as himself the “Rock Doc” has been sentenced to twenty years in jail for illegally prescribing 1000’s of doses of opioids together with oxycodone and fentanyl in return for cash and intercourse, federal prosecutors stated on Tuesday.

Jeffrey W. Younger Jr., was sentenced Monday in federal court docket, a couple of yr after he was convicted of unlawfully distributing and allotting managed substances out of a clinic in Jackson, Tennessee.

There isn’t a parole within the federal court docket system.

Younger, 49, was amongst 60 folks indicted in April 2019 for his or her roles in illegally prescribing and distributing tablets containing opioids and different medication. Authorities stated the defendants included 53 medical professionals tied to some 350,000 prescriptions and 32 million tablets.

Younger, who dubbed himself because the “Rock Doc,” promoted his observe with the motto “work exhausting, play more durable.” The indictment states he prescription drugs that have been extremely addictive and at excessive threat of abuse as he tried to advertise a “Rock Doc” actuality TV pilot and podcast whereas acquiring intercourse and cash for prescriptions.

Younger maintained a celebration environment at his clinic and illegally prescribed greater than 100,000 doses of hydrocodone, oxycodone, and fentanyl, together with to a pregnant girl, prosecutors stated.

“The self-proclaimed ‘Rock Doc’ abused the facility of the prescription pad to provide his small neighborhood with a whole lot of 1000’s of doses of extremely addictive prescription opioids to acquire cash, notoriety, and sexual favors,” stated Assistant US Lawyer Normal Nicole M. Argentieri, head of the Justice Division’s Felony Division. “The defendant’s conduct endangered his sufferers and the neighborhood as an entire.”

Since March 2007, the Justice Division’s Well being Care Fraud Strike Drive Program has charged greater than 5,400 defendants who’ve billed federal well being care packages and personal insurers greater than $27 billion, officers stated.