Saving Jenny: Rescuing Our Youth from America's Opioid and Suicide Epidemic

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.

BEYOND AN EXPOSÉ, Saving Jenny offers practical political, economic, educational and social solutions to help the countless individuals and families afflicted by drug addiction and suicidality. Most importantly, Percy presents a new paradigm grounded in altruistic love, which utilizes both psychodynamic and spiritual resources to deliver hope and TRUE HEALING…

Vivian Percy, Esq., (a nom de plume) received her J.D. from the NYU School of Law and worked as an attorney at a global law firm, headquartered in Manhattan.
In addition to receiving a citation from the firm for having devoted a significant number of hours to pro bono work, early on she was an intake assistant on the research floor of Cornell Hospital, NYC, during the height of the AIDS crisis. Deeply concerned about her friends suffering from HIV/AIDS, she arranged for a physician expert HIV/AIDS research presentation at Hunter College to share insights and encourage further medical progress.
Percy also cared for her mother with Alzheimer’s Disease for 14 years, navigating all aspects of patient management and joining in efforts to promote government support for at-home supervision.
As a single parent, she never gave up, with the help of God, fighting for the life of her daughter, whose story is the focus of Saving Jenny, and whose courage, honesty, and love inspire her mother every day.


Anna Badini, LCSW, PhD, earned her doctorate from NYU’s program in Clinical Social Work and has been in practice for 20 years, 10 of which as a Psychotherapist and Supervisor at a Child Guidance Center and part of a Sexual Abuse Investigative Team. She trained at the Institute of NPAP, holds membership in the Connecticut Society for Psychoanalytic Psychologists, and is a published author. Dr. Badini collaborated to ensure the accuracy of descriptions of therapeutic practices within psychiatric/rehab institutions and the flaws in the current mental health/substance abuse model.