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Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

av David Sheff

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What had happened to my beautiful boy? To our family? What did I do wrong? Those are the wrenching questions that haunted every moment of David Sheff's journey through his son's drug addiction. David's story is a first: a teenager's addiction from the parent's point of viewâ??a real-time chronicle of the shocking descent into substance abuse and the gradual emergence into hope.

Before meth, Sheff's son, Nic, was a varsity athlete, honor student, and award-winning journalist. After meth, he was a trembling wraith who lied, stole money from his eight-year-old brother, and lived on the streets. With poignant candor, Sheff traces the first warning signsâ??denial, 3 a.m. phone callsâ??the attempts at rehabilitation, and, at last, the way past addiction. He shows us that, whatever an addict's fate, the rest of the family must care for one another too, lest they become addicted to addiction.

Beautiful Boy is a fiercely candid memoir that brings immediacy to the emotional rollercoaster of loving a child who seems beyond h… (mer)

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Required reading for family members who are dealing with the co-dependency that goes hand in hand with having a loved one in active addiction. Read for school. ( )
  Library_Breeder | Apr 28, 2023 |
This was an incredibly emotional read and I would definitely recommend reading it because it is heartbreaking and something that got me thinking a lot, but I do have a lot of issues with it, as well. Mainly, it's the privilege of a wealthy white family with endless opportunities to get their son help. I am so happy that they were able to do so so many times, but he never acknowledged that calling the cops on your own child (and not worrying about them shooting him while he's tweaking) or sending them to an expensive rehabilitative facility or 99% of the things he did were results of his rich white privilege. It also framed marijuana as a gateway drug and didn't talk about its medicinal effects at all. There were so many opportunities to talk about the criminalization of addiction and yet the only time Sheff brought it up was to say that at least if someone is in jail, you know where they are. Like okay, but what about the systemic abuse that they are enduring? The drugs that they likely have access to? And, oh right, the fact that they are in jail for a disease?
All of this said, there were tears in my eyes at a few different points, which is pretty rare for me when I'm reading. So yes, it could have been much better, but the emotional aspect of the book was absolutely there. ( )
  ninagl | Jan 7, 2023 |
I read this for a book club for friends and family of addicts. It was well-written book, and the author did a great job capturing the cycle of emotions that people go through when a loved one is addicted to substances. I don’t know if reading memoirs is as helpful to me as reading the more straightforward self-help books on the subject. One positive thing about reading a memoir like this, is you’re reminded that you’re not alone. I’m curious what he has to say in Clean, which I’m starting next for the same club. ( )
  Harks | Dec 17, 2022 |
This was a very sad and frustrating look at the life of an addict through the father's eyes. Addiction is difficult to deal with for anyone but you did feel the father's pain at watching his child constantly relapse time and time again and his helplessness at being able to fix it. There is also a lot of guilt for their poor choices and the enabling of the son's addiction. However, you can also clearly see that this is a family of privilege and they have means at their disposal that most people don't which can be off-putting in a way. This guy had opportunities that most people could only dream of much less someone who is completely untrustworthy and always high. That doesn't usually translate into job opportunities for most. That aside, it also shows that anyone can fall into addiction regardless of their life circumstances and it's extremely difficult to get out of even with money. As a parent, watching your child spiral into such self-destruction is simply heartbreaking and, since this was written years ago, I hope they are both doing better and the son is able to stay clean. ( )
  JediBookLover | Oct 29, 2022 |
Not a huge fan of non-fiction books. Nic's book, Tweak, was fueled with emotion. I was on the edge of my seat wondering what would happen. It didn't feel like an autobiography or even non-fiction. Beautiful Boy on the other hand read like a school textbook. Yes, there was emotion and my heart broke and laughed multiple times. But (and a big but) a lot of it was sterile. Like viewing the situation through a microscope and studying. Was the book bad? By all means, no! The problems I have are mainly on me in regards to what I look for and enjoy in a novel. ( )
  JumpyDr4gon | Aug 10, 2022 |
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This book is for the men and women who have dedicated their lives to understanding and combating addiction at rehabs, hospitals, research centers, sober-living and half-way houses, and organizations devoted to education about drug abuse, as well as the anonymous - the brave ones who keep coming back - at countless twelve-step meetings every day and night throughout the world - to them and their families: the people who understand my family's story because they have lived and are living it, the families of the addicted - their children, brothers and sisters, friends, partners, husbands and wives, and parents like me. "It's just that you can't help them and it's all so discouraging," wrote F. Scott Fitzgerald. But the truth is, you do help them, and you help one another. You helped me. Along with them, this book is dedicated to my wife, Karen Barbour, and my children, Nic, Jasper and Daisy Sheff.
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Some of the material in this book appeared in the article, "My Addicted Son," New York Times Magazine, February 6, 2005
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What had happened to my beautiful boy? To our family? What did I do wrong? Those are the wrenching questions that haunted every moment of David Sheff's journey through his son's drug addiction. David's story is a first: a teenager's addiction from the parent's point of viewâ??a real-time chronicle of the shocking descent into substance abuse and the gradual emergence into hope.

Before meth, Sheff's son, Nic, was a varsity athlete, honor student, and award-winning journalist. After meth, he was a trembling wraith who lied, stole money from his eight-year-old brother, and lived on the streets. With poignant candor, Sheff traces the first warning signsâ??denial, 3 a.m. phone callsâ??the attempts at rehabilitation, and, at last, the way past addiction. He shows us that, whatever an addict's fate, the rest of the family must care for one another too, lest they become addicted to addiction.

Beautiful Boy is a fiercely candid memoir that brings immediacy to the emotional rollercoaster of loving a child who seems beyond h

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