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Author Sheff, David, author.

Title Beautiful boy : a father's journey through his son's addiction / David Sheff.

Publication Info. Boston : Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018.
©2008

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  362.29 SHEFF    Check Shelf
Edition First movie tie-in edition.
Description 340 pages ; 21 cm
Note "With a new afterword."
Summary "What had happened to my beautiful boy? To our family? What did I do wrong? Those are the wrenching questions that haunted David Sheff's journey through his son Nic's addiction to drugs and tentative steps toward recovery. Before Nic 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 warning signs: the denial, the three a.m. phone calls--is it Nic? the police? the hospital? His preoccupation with Nic became an addiction in itself. But as a journalist, he instinctively researched every treatment that might save his son. And he refused to give up on Nic."--Back cover.
Note Originally published 2008 by Houghton Mifflin; this edition has a new afterword discussing current US addiction crisis and update on Nic Sheff's recovery.
Contents Stay up late -- His drug of choice -- Whatever -- If only -- Never any knowing -- Epilogue -- Afterword.
Note "Mariner books."
"Now a major motion picture."--Cover.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Subject Sheff, David.
Sheff, Nic.
Drug abuse -- Treatment -- California.
Drug addicts -- Rehabilitation -- California.
Methamphetamine abuse -- Treatment -- California.
Children of divorced parents -- California.
Parents of drug addicts -- California -- Biography.
Sheff, David. (OCoLC)fst01450305
Sheff, Nic. (OCoLC)fst01792475
Children of divorced parents. (OCoLC)fst00855337
Drug abuse -- Treatment. (OCoLC)fst00898588
California. (OCoLC)fst01204928
Added Title Father's journey through his son's addiction
ISBN 9781328974716 (paperback)
1328974715 (paperback)
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