Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines | Nic Sheff

Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines | Nic Sheff | Gut-wrenching and real

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	Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines Nic Sheff Ginee Seo Books, 2008 - 336 pages average customer review:based on 64 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Nic Sheff was drunk for the first time at age eleven. In the years that followed, he would regularly smoke pot, do cocaine and Ecstasy, and develop addictions to crystal meth and heroin. Even so, he felt like he would always be able to quit and put his life together whenever he needed to. It took a violent relapse one summer in California to convince him otherwise. In a voice that is raw and honest, Nic spares no detail in telling us the compelling, heartbreaking, and true story of his relapse and the road to recovery. As we watch Nic plunge the mental and physical depths of drug addiction, he paints a picture for us of a person at odds with his past, with his family, with his substances, and with himself. It's a harrowing portrait -- but not one without hope.

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Learned a lot

I just finished this book. It's amazing how much I learned about life issues that surrounds us all. Leaving all the lessons I got from the addiction and all its consequences , I got to learn more about family dynamics and relationships and God. Yes, God. Even though Nic does not believe in God he slowly starts to surrender his life to a higher power.

It's really well written, a page turner..I would recommend reading his dad's book first.

Gut-wrenching and real

I read Nic Sheff's Tweak after reading Beautiful Boy, which was written by his father, David Sheff. As I mentioned in my Amazon review of Beautiful Boy, my son is an 18-year-old addict and our lives have been turned upside down for the last 4+ years because of it. Tweak is gut-wrenching, very graphic, and very real. It certainly shows how a nice, highly intelligent kid can screw his life up pretty quickly. Be forewarned that a lot of the stuff described in this book is pretty hardcore. It will certainly make you wonder how anyone could end up in such dire straits. But, of course, addiction is a disease, not a choice. As the parent of an addict, this book affected me greatly. I'm sure it will affect you, too, even if you don't have an addict child. Be prepared to cry. A lot. I wish nothing but the best for Nic Sheff and hope that he can stay clean and sober. It took a lot of courage for him to share his story.

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Honest Book

I really enjoyed this book, I couldn't put it down. I was fascinated with Nic's life/addiction and how something can overpower your mind and judgement. I would recommend this book to anyone that is interested in a candid writer and the blunt reality of addiction and how it affects everyone that is involved.

Another side to the story

After I finished reading Beautiful Boy by David Sheff, I stumbled across his son's account of the same time period. It was most interesting to see both sides of the same story. The father's story of his beautiful, smart son's demise into the hell of drug addiction was harrowing, especially if you are a parent or grandparent. How could this happen to a child who, although his parents divorced, seemingly had a happy, normal childhood? According to the son's account, however, his childhood was not quite as idyllic as his father seemed to think. Haunted by his fear of abandonment and exposed to his father's lifestyle (drugs, women), Nic's search for a way to solve (or avoid) what he perceived as his problems, while certainly not acceptable, at least seemed to give cause to what he did. If you have read Beautiful Boy, I would most certainly recommend getting the other side of the story by reading this book.

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