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Khazan: There was this really big series of indictments that came down in 2019 where the federal government said, “You know what? We’re going to take the worst of the worst. The story of how that doctor-patient communication broke down-hundreds of thousands of times-is what Olga wanted to understand. Khazan: So, like, that doctor-patient interaction and how the opioids actually got prescribed.ĭoctors, in theory, would only prescribe to people who needed the drugs and would monitor patients so they wouldn’t get addicted.
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To get from pharma lab to medicine cabinet, the drug needed to pass through one of the most sacred spaces in America. But, in theory, there should have been a check on all this. Longoria: There are many pieces to the puzzle of how opioids found their way into so many medicine cabinets. ( The music changes tone, becoming a little more up-tempo and treble-heavy.)
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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 people’s medicine cabinets. Khazan: So I’ve written a million stories about this. Longoria: And what part of the crisis were you most focused on? Longoria: The result is that more than 450,000 people are dead from overdose in the last 20 years. Khazan: A lot of them, unfortunately, went with it. Khazan: So doctors were kind of like, “Okay.” ( Somber, reflective droning notes play up.) Longoria: Olga Khazan is a staff writer at The Atlantic who’s been covering the opioid epidemic for the last seven years. Olga Khazan: At the time, there wasn’t a lot of limits on pharmaceutical companies being able to tell doctors that. ( The eclectic mix of sounds fades away.) They do not have serious medical side effects. Longoria: Pharmaceutical companies marketed these drugs aggressively to doctors. Purdue voice-over: Some patients may be afraid of taking opioids because they’re perceived as too strong or addictive … but that is far from actual fact. 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 didn’t have a clear cure for. Purdue ad doctor: These drugs-which, I repeat, are our best, strongest pain medications-should be used much more than they are for patients in pain. ( A shudder, a gasp, then clapping and bubbling evolve into a background track.) Purdue voice-over: Often, it will be an opioid medication. Julia Longoria: Over 20 years ago, pharmaceutical companies began to market the use of a magical pill. Purdue Pharma ad voice-over: Once you’ve found the right doctor and have told him or her about your pain, don’t be afraid to take what they give you. ( Abruptly, rock music begins to play, and then, just as quickly, it ends with a light echo.)
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Additional audio from Purdue Pharma, The Rock Doc TV Show, and Bat Pig Pictures.Ī transcript of this episode is presented below: Additional music by Nelson Bandela (“04 HIDDEN FORCES” and “Auddi Sun 01 131”). 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. Fact-check by Michelle Ciarrocca and Jack Segelstein.
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Editing by Katherine Wells, Julia Longoria, and Denise Wills. Use the hashtag #TheExperimentPodcast, or write to us at episode was reported by Olga Khazan and produced by Alvin Melathe. “‘Why would he do this? Why would you go to this doctor? Why didn’t anyone try to put a stop to this?’ I just had a lot of questions about how could this happen.”įurther reading: “The Hard-Partying, Rock-Obsessed Nurse at the Center of a Massive Opioid Bust”īe part of The Experiment. “I had a lot of ‘Why on earth?’ questions,” the Atlantic reporter Olga Khazan says. He pleaded not guilty to the charges, and is currently in jail awaiting trial. Young was indicted on drug-trafficking charges in April 2019.
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Off camera, Young allegedly prescribed 1.4 million addictive pills and had sex with female patients. Young’s case provides a rare glimpse into the ways patients wind up addicted to the powerful painkillers fueling the national opioid epidemic.īranding 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. Federal prosecutors who charged him in a massive opioid bust say he overprescribed painkillers, often for “money, notoriety, and sexual favors.” The patients of the nurse practitioner and aspiring reality star Jeffrey Young say he helped them like nobody else could.