Tweak: (growing up on methamphetamines)
โ Scribed by Sheff, Nic
- Publisher
- Atheneum Books for Young Readers
- Year
- 2018;2009
- Tongue
- English
- Edition
- Atheneum books for Young Readers media tie-in paperback edit
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Synopsis
The author details his immersion in a world of hardcore drugs, revealing the mental and physical depths of addiction, and the violent relapse one summer in California that forever changed his life, leading him down the road to recovery.
โฆ Subjects
Drug addicts;Drug addicts--California;Drug addicts--Rehabilitation;Drug addicts--Rehabilitation--California;Methamphetamine abuse;Methamphetamine abuse--California;Biography;Juvenile works;Biographies;Autobiographies;Young adult literature;Sheff, Nic -- Juvenile literature;Drug addicts -- California -- Biography -- Juvenile literature;Drug addicts -- Rehabilitation -- California -- Juvenile literature;Methamphetamine abuse -- California -- Biography -- Juvenile literature;Sheff, Nic;Drug addicts
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<p>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
<p>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
Sheff relates his personal struggle with drugs and alcohol in this poignant and often disturbing memoir. Paul Michael Garcia is the perfect choice for narrator; his stern and entirely believable voice captures the desolation in Sheff's tale. His reading is wonderfully underplayed, and necessarily so