Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey through His Son’s Meth Addiction - David Sheff

Category: Autobiography & Biographies, Self-help
Language: English
Keywords: Biography Crystal Meth Drug Addiction Memoir Nonfiction

Written by David Sheff
Read by Anthony Heald
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Length: 11 hours 28 minutes
Date of release: 2008

David Sheff’s story is a first: a teenager’s addiction from the parent’s point of view, a real-time chronicle of the shocking descent into substance abuse and the gradual emergence into hope.

Before meth, Sheff’s son, Nic, was a varsity athlete, honor student, and award-winning journalist. After meth, he was a trembling wraith who stole money from his eight-year-old brother and lived on the streets. With haunting candor, Sheff traces the first warning signs, the attempts at rehabilitation, and, at last, the way past addiction. He shows us that, whatever an addict’s fate, the rest of the family must care for one another, too, lest they become addicted to addiction.