num_pages: 336
description: 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.
language: English
title: Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines
titlecomplete: Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines
genres: Biography, Mental Illness, Autobiography, Teen, Mental Health, Psychology, Nonfiction, Biography Memoir, Memoir, Audiobook
ratings_count: 41788
awards: awardedAt: 1325404800000
name: Lincoln Award
publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers