Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines | 
| Author: Nic Sheff
Publisher: Ginee Seo Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  48 reviews
Sales Rank: 158
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 336
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.5 x 1.5
ISBN: 1416913629
Dewey Decimal Number: 362.299092
EAN: 9781416913627
ASIN: 1416913629
Publication Date: February 19, 2008
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Product Description
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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 Good stuff May 11, 2008
My ex was addicted to Meth, and always said, "You'll never understand until you try it". This book allows me so see life through an addicts eyes, but not having to use the drug myself.
Tweak May 11, 2008
I enjoyed this book. At times I was reading in horror at the devistation that was happening to this young man. i am a mother who lost her son to drugs and I felt that this book really gave me another view of the disease. Thank you Nick for this insite into what was going on in my sons life. I now have a better understanding.
Recommend May 6, 2008
The book helped me to learn more about the thinking of a hardcore addict. I learned a couple of things that my son hadn't already taught me -- the hard way. I liked Nic's open, honest, and direct style. What also makes for interesting reading is that Nic has identified some of his demons. The reader can identify a few more.
Excellent recommendation for addiction by Jeremy May 6, 2008
This is a great book for anyone battling addictions or methamphetamines. It is a sad but compelling book about the downward spiral about methamphetamines use at an early age and the consequences of heavy use up until adulthood. I can't argue with the author's point at all.
Companion book to "Beautiful Boy" is just as devastating May 3, 2008
I read David Sheff's "Beautiful Boy" a couple of weeks ago, and I couldn't wait to read this companion book, written by David's son Nic, to see what Nic's take was on the whole thing.
"Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines" (325 pages) brings the memoir of Nic Sheff, on what it was (is?) like growing up being a drug addict. The book is not written in a straight chronological order. Instead, it jumps in at a point where Nick gets kicked out of his family's home and the first third or so of the book retells the next two weeks as Nic descends into deeper and deeper hell and drug addiction. Nic spares no details, and this is not for the faint of hearts. The rest of the book chronicles the following 2 years or so, and it is an endless up and down. When you read it, you simply wonder why anyone would want to go or live through this, again and again? Nic expresses remorse and sorrow, and towards the end of the book it appears that he has finally turned the corner. I was almost going to say "turned the corner, once and for all". But that surely would be an exaggeration. One simply can't ever know. For all we know, Nic has fallen off the band wagon again as I write this (although I can only pray for Nic and for his family and loved ones that this is not the case).
"Tweak" is not the first book that dives into the genre of drug-addiction survivor memoir, but it is well written, and a page-turner. Quite frankly, I couldn't put the book down, even thougb I've never been in that kind of situation (or maybe because of it). The amount of details that Nic is able to recall and describe on what he went through, despite his addictions, is simply amazing. And "Tweak" definitely does a tremendous job as a warning for anyone who even might be tempted in the slightest. In all, both David Sheff's "Beautiful Boy" and Nic Sheff's "Tweak" are highly recommended, and if possible should both be read.
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