Beautiful boy A father's journey through his son's meth addiction
Record details
- ISBN: 9781433285448 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- ISBN: 1433285444 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
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Physical Description:
electronic
electronic resource
remote - Publisher: Ashland : Blackstone Audio, 2008.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 11:28:25. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Anthony Heald. |
System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 164911 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Subject: | Drug abuse -- Treatment -- California Methamphetamine abuse -- Treatment -- California Children of divorced parents -- California |
Genre: | Audiobooks. |
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Summary:
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.