Exposé on America’s Growing Opioid Crisis

   For 14-year old Jenny, being struck and thrown 20 feet by a taxicab in downtown Manhattan resulted in an array of injuries, both physical and psychological, and was a serious-enough blow to she and her widowed mother.  But then the real nightmare ensued as Jenny became addicted to the painkillers prescribed to her by her physician, imploding the world of this small family of two.

   After enduring years of the aftermath which included a descent into despair as treatment facility after treatment facility were sought out by her increasingly frantic mom, “Vivian Percy” (a nom de plume used to protect the identity of her daughter), finally had enough when she “grew tired of attending the funerals of my daughter’s friends” and decided to chronicle their multi-year ordeal.

   Saving Jenny — Rescuing Our Youth from America’s Opioid and Suicide Epidemic (June, Radius Book Group, 320 pages) painstakingly chronicles the horrors visited upon her increasingly fragile daughter as she endured myriad abuses inside the recovery arena charged with helping those battling addictions.  Unmasking revelation after revelation about the illicit and even illegal activities at rehab treatment centers, “Vivian,” an attorney with a global law firm headquartered in Manhattan, also forcefully addresses the interwoven issues stemming from Big Pharma as well as the i ...