Book of the Month: “Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction” - A Memoir of Lov

Beautiful Boy is based off of the memoirs by David Sheff and Nic Sheff, recounting Nic's battle with addiction that tore through his family. Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction is David's best-selling book that told the story of Nic's addiction through the eyes of the family. The idea originally sprouted from an article that David had written for the New York Times entitled, My Addicted Son. Nic also wrote a book about his addiction through his eyes, which was called Tweak. Both books were released at the same time.

THE NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NOW A MAJOR FILM, STARRING STEVE CARELL AND BAFTA AND GOLDEN GLOBE NOMINATED TIMOTHEE CHALAMET '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. With haunting candour, David Sheff traces the first subtle warning signs: the denial, the 3am phone calls (is it Nic? the police? the hospital?), the attempts at rehab. 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 Nic. This story is a first: a teenager's addiction from the parent's point of view - a real-time chronicle of the shocking descent into substance abuse and the gradual emergence into hope. Beautiful Boy is a fiercely candid memoir that brings immediacy to the emotional rollercoaster of loving a child who seems beyond help. Read the other side of Nic Sheff's bestselling memoir, Tweak. Praise for Beautiful Boy:- 'A brilliant, harrowing, heartbreaking, fascinating story, full of beautiful moments and hard-won wisdom. This book will save a lot of lives and heal a lot of hearts'. Anne Lamott 'An important book... moving, timely and startlingly beautiful.' Richard Branson

Book of the Month: “Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction”

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Doug Myrland (Guest Host): Beautiful Boy is the name of a book written by a man who saw his son become a slave to methamphetamine. The book tells the harrowing story of how the addiction of the son afflicts the lives of the parents. The author of is journalist David Sheff. His son, Nic, eventually became sober. And like his father, Nic also wrote a book about the experience of addition from his vantage point. That book is titled Tweaker.

THE NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NOW A MAJOR FILM, STARRING STEVE CARELL AND BAFTA AND GOLDEN GLOBE NOMINATED TIMOTHEE CHALAMET '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.With haunting candour, David Sheff traces the first subtle warning signs: the denial, the 3am phone calls (is it Nic? the police? the hospital?), the attempts at rehab. 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 Nic. This story is a first: a teenager's addiction from the parent's point of view - a real-time chronicle of the shocking descent into substance abuse and the gradual emergence into hope. Beautiful Boy is a fiercely candid memoir that brings immediacy to the emotional rollercoaster of loving a child who seems beyond help. Read the other side of Nic Sheff's bestselling memoir, Tweak. Praise for Beautiful Boy:- 'A brilliant, harrowing, heartbreaking, fascinating story, full of beautiful moments and hard-won wisdom. This book will save a lot of lives and heal a lot of hearts'. Anne Lamott 'An important book... moving, timely and startlingly beautiful.' Richard Branson

Jeannette Walls tells a story of her early childhood growing up in a highly dysfunctional family with parents who are free spirits doing what makes each of them happy at the moment. Her father promises her that someday, he will build her a glass castle on the beach. She dreams of this beautiful home, but throughout the years, she and her siblings are homeless and learn to care for themselves while their parents take off for places unknown. She teaches life lessons of resilience, redemption, and forgiveness that have stayed with me for a very long time.

2) This entire website is dedicated to helping you understand the solution to addiction. My answer for Nic (and David) is summarized in the following blog posts: Understanding Addiction and the Long Term Solutions to addiction. David is right when he says in the book that there is no one right path for anyone, but there are specific things that can make a difference in whether a person continues to go through life cycling in and out of treatment, or progresses beyond their addiction.

I have not read Beautiful Boy but I do have the book. My daughter read it and told me how good it was. I feel like I have lived the book because I have a son that is an addict. I have lived through 41 years of addiction. My son is a perfect example of this. He has been in and out of treatment many times. He quit drinking for ten years but never did deal with his problems. He had some extreme events happen to him in his childhood. He chose to only look at the good things in his life. I gave him permission to get as angry as he needed to with me so he could get out the truth of what happened to him. He refused. I begged him to go to therapy, a priest, a good friend or anyone that might he would trust to talk to but he just wanted to remember the good times. He relapsed and the sad story is too long to tell. I have read Tweek and really enjoyed this book. I am an alcoholic and I can see his tweeking by the way his mind flits from one subject to another. I have been sober 18 years and I have been to therapy for the entire time. I still have problems with relationships. I deal with my childhood problems on a daily basis even though I have done intensive therapy on what I felt the problems were. I think that I have missed something because I can not let go of my guilt and I relive a lot of my past in my dreams and how I deal with my life. I can only pray!

I am currently taking a Drug Education Class at PSU. I also recently saw you in my class that I am taking there and really appreciated your insight. I just got done reading Beautiful Boy and found it a difficult read. This story was so eerily similar to my own story the difference being my son died from his addiction right after his 18th birthday from prescription drugs. The fathers journey was so painful to read. I remember my own journey and when I look back I see so much denial and how I wish I had more information as a parent. Having a son in rehab and therapy and have them still die is very frustrating and full of guilt. I do agree that we need to involve the family in the treatment so we have an idea of the best way to support them and how to help ourselves as well.

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