Title: Beautiful Boy
Subtitle: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
First published: 2008
Description: 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 Nic’s addiction to drugs and tentative steps toward recovery. Before Nic Sheff became addicted to crystal meth, he was a charming boy, joyous and funny, a varsity athlete and honor student adored by his two younger siblings. After meth, he was a trembling wraith who lied, stole, and lived on the streets. 

David Sheff traces the first subtle warning signs: the denial, the 3 A.M. phone calls (is it Nic? The police? The hospital?), the rehabs. His preoccupation with Nic became an addiction in itself, and the obsessive worry and stress took a tremendous toll, but as a journalist, he instinctively researched every avenue of treatment that might save his son and refused to give up on him. Beautiful Boy is a fiercely candid memoir that brings immediacy to the emotional roller coaster of loving a child who seems beyond help
Subjects: Methamphetamine, Methamphetamine abuse - Treatment - California, Father-Child Relations, Drug abuse - Treatment - California, Drug abuse, Children of divorced parents, Amphetamine-Related Disorders, Therapy, Treatment, Methamphetamine abuse, Children of divorced parents - California, Addicts, Family relationships, Parents of drug addicts, Biography, Abuso de drogas, Hijos de padres divorciados, Abuso de metanfetamina, Tratamiento, Drug abuse, treatment, Drug addicts, rehabilitation, Fathers and sons, Drug addicts, family relationships, nyt:paperback-nonfiction=2009-02-01, New York Times bestseller, California, social conditions
Places: California
People: Nic Sheff, David Sheff