Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines

Nic Sheff

May 2009 · Sold by Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

The story that inspired the major motion picture Beautiful Boy featuring Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet.

This New York Times bestselling memoir of a young man’s addiction to methamphetamine tells a raw, harrowing, and ultimately hopeful tale of the road from relapse to recovery.

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 into 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.

Ratings and reviews

I consider this book my favorite. It's the best. I felt everything Nic described in his memoir. I cried, I smiled, I got angry. It was like I was basically part of Nic's life. I like love you Nic. I love you because I can see how hard you try everyday. I wish one day I can meet you and give you a long tight hug. This is a story that will stay in my memory for the rest of my life. <3 hopefully you'll make a movie soon about this book. :)

This book was very difficult to read. Hearing his attitudes, seeing the mental pictures of addicts, addiction, the lifestyles that become acceptable to them in their search for more of the same. I learned a lot, and I was heartbroken to see that Nic has continued to relapse. Is there a happy ending? I pray there is, for Nic, for all the families who live with the pain of addiction, and all those who don't have the strength to go on to rebuild their lives

And big ups nic your an insperation homie, I would love to meet u someday, and if they ever offer u a movie and u need some sick dubstep holla! ;)

About the author

Nic Sheff is the author of two memoirs about his struggles with addiction: the New York Times bestselling Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines and We All Fall Down: Living with Addiction. Nic lives in Los Angeles, California where he writes for film and television.