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Saving Jenny : rescuing our youth from America's opioid and suicide epidemic
- Author
- Percy, Vivian, author.
- Title
- Saving Jenny : rescuing our youth from America's opioid and suicide epidemic / Vivian Percy in collaboration with anna Badini, PhD.
- Format
- Book
- Edition
- First edition.
- Published
- New York : Radius Book Group, [2018]
- Description
- 306 pages ; 24 cm
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-306) and index.
- Summary
- "Normal turned to PTSD and a substance abuse nightmare for Jenny the instant a taxi struck her, catapulting her twenty feet across a busy New York City street. Jenny is one of the lucky ones to have survived the drug rehabilitation system, which routinely fails those at risk. Her story is multiplied across the U.S. in the shattered lives and torn-apart families of millions of Jennies. Saving Jenny is the narration of a mother and daughter's long painful journey from tragedy, through opioid addiction, toward redemption. Its cautionary tale sheds light on drug dependency, suicidal depression, sexual exploitation and misdiagnosed mind disorders. We discover that these are symptoms of much larger societal issues: the decimation of the family, childhood traumatization, and a culture devoid of human values. These pages unmask a mental health industry focused more on profits than people, which regularly betrays those in its keeping, and the complicity of Big Pharma and insurance companies in these schemas. We see firsthand the abuse, negligence and illicit activities going on in psychiatric and rehab facilities"--Amazon.com.
- Subject headings
- Medication abuse--United States. Opioid abuse--Treatment--Family relationships. Suicide--Family relationships. Parents of drug addicts--United States. Teenagers--Drug use. Teenagers--Suicidal behavior. Parent and teenager. Problem children. Opioid abuse.
- ISBN
- 1682309991 9781682309995