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Manufacturer: Ginee Seo Books
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 362.299092
EAN: 9781416913627
ISBN: 1416913629
Label: Ginee Seo Books
Manufacturer: Ginee Seo Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: 2008-02-19
Publisher: Ginee Seo Books
Reading Level: Young Adult
Studio: Ginee Seo Books
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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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Summary: Tweak
Comment: Having worked with many addicts, this book is an accurate portrayal of where addiction leads you. The author is lucky to be alive.
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Summary: I can't do it
Comment: I read David Sheff's Beautiful Boy and wept. The thought of paying money to Nic Sheff for his side of the same story is a great struggle. The problem is that if children who have not yet tried drugs hear this (and other similar) stories, what will they make of it? People who overcome their addictions fail to make the point of the horrible damage drug/alcohol abuse causes. A child will weigh the possibilities and see someone like Nic who has emerged a published author, and therefore, an addict who can function and earn a decent living. The question then becomes, "If Nic Sheff (or other addicts in the limelight) can do drugs and still have a good life, why shouldn't kids or young adults try drugs? It would be phenomenal if Nic Sheff didn't spend his earnings from this book on drugs. It would be beautiful if Nic Sheff lived the rest of his life clean and productive and happy. I wish this for his family. But I just can not know that I have given him a penny toward possible further abuse and pain inflicted on himself or the people who love him.
I get that this is just a guy telling his story to anyone who may be intersted. And, I am interested. But I just can't do it.
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Summary: Real
Comment: What a wonderful book. Everything Nic expressed in here was so true.
I could not stop listening to this book. It was just so good.
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Summary: tweak review
Comment: This book scared me. It scared me because of all the drugs that Nic did and how he ruined his relationship with his family, just to get high. But at the same time I liked it, because it was so descriptive, like when Nic talked about how it felt to be high. Also when Nic realized that being sober was a lot better than getting high. I also liked how the story jumped around, like the flashbacks. What I didn't like about this book was how the story just ended, it just stopped. It never talked about if he stayed sober and how what encouraged him to write the book. I also didn't like how Nic acted. He didn't like to hear what anyone else had to say, about what he was doing wrong, like when Spenser and his dad told him that his girlfriend was a bad choice for him. And I didn't like it when Nics' mom call his girlfriend's dad and told him that they had both relapsed. That was a very mean thing for her to do.
I would recommend this book to older teenagers and most adults, because I don't think that younger teenagers would understand what Nic is saying about drugs.
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Summary: Best Drug Memoir In a While...
Comment: I could not put this down after my husband handed it off to me. After mediocre memoirs, fake memoirs and memoirs about everything from ballet to dogs, I really just wanted a good old good down and dirty drug recovery memoir. This kid explains truly what it's like to feel when a drug addict is down and out, and the whole AA experience resonates all too well, along with dual-diagnosis. Read it. If you can stomach it.
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