Beautiful Boy

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This book tells a dreadful, familiar tale. Nic’s parents separate, acrimoniously, when he is three. He has his first joint at twelve. By eighteen, he is addicted to the ‘most malefic drug of all’ – methamphetamine (meth). There are worrying disappearances from home, theft (also from home), violence (‘tweaking’) and trouble with the police. But it’s the father who feels guilty. The son just hates himself and takes more meth.
 
Three things make this book different. Nic does not die (at the time of writing). He writes his side of the story in his own book (“Tweak”). His father, a former drug-taker, knew about meth addiction all along – a university friend died of it on the eve of his fortieth birthday.
 
Alongside the human story, this book examines the origins and usage of meth, its depth of market penetration compared to other drugs and the benefits, or not, of therapy.
 
A lot of books are just like drugs. Once you have started, you can’t stop. This is one of them. If you are a parent, you need to read it. If you are a teenager, you should read it.

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About Beautiful Boy

#1 New York Times bestseller With a new afterwordNow a Major Motion Picture Starring Steve Carell * Timothée Chalamet * Maura Tierney * and Amy Ryan "A brilliant, harrowing, heartbreaking, fascinating story, full of beautiful moments and hard-won wisdom. This book will save a lot of lives and heal a lot of hearts." - Anne Lamott "'When one of us tells the truth, he makes it easier for all of us to open our hearts to our own pain and that of others.' That's ultimately what Beautiful Boy is about: truth and healing." - Mary Pipher, author of Reviving Ophelia What had happened to my beautiful boy? To our family? What did I do wrong? Those are the wrenching questions that haunted David Sheff's journey through his son Nic's addiction to drugs and tentative steps toward recovery. Before Nic became addicted to crystal meth, he was a charming boy, joyous and funny, a varsity athlete and honor student adored by his two younger siblings. After meth, he was a trembling wraith who lied, stole, and lived on the streets. David Sheff traces the first warning signs: the denial, the three a.m. phone calls-is it Nic? the police? the hospital? His preoccupation with Nic became an addiction in itself. But as a journalist, he instinctively researched every treatment that might save his son. And he refused to give up on Nic. "Filled with compelling anecdotes and important insights . . . An eye-opening memoir." - Washington Post

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