Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines

Nic Sheff

Jan 2008 · Blackstone Audio Inc. · Narrated by Richard Powers

About this audiobook

Nic Sheff was drunk for the first time at age eleven. In the years that followed, he regularly smoked pot, did cocaine and ecstasy, and developed 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 writing 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 into the mental and physical depths of drug addiction, he paints a picture 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.

Ratings and reviews

This book is absolutely awful, I was hoping to get a peak into the dark underbelly of the methamphetamine world, but this book just turns into another heroin diary from a spoiled child. I have dealt with drug addiction myself, including an addiction to opiates and I was able to quit without going in-and-out of rehab over and over again, from my perspective the main character is just weak and pathetic. If you're in the mood to read a heroin book I'd suggest reading the works of William Burroughs, specifically "Junkie" and "Naked Lunch".

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About the author

Nic Sheff and his father David Sheff captured a nation of readers with their bestselling memoirs, Tweak and Beautiful Boy. These books explore teen drug addiction from two different points of view: a father's and a son's. Nic currently lives in Los Angeles, California, and writes for TV, including for the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why.

Richard Powers has published thirteen novels. He is a MacArthur Fellow and received the National Book Award. His book, The Overstory, won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction.