Beautiful Boy

"Beautiful Boy" by David Sheff was his heart wrenching account of his teenage son's meth addiction. This one was hard to read, but very good. Sheff tells of the anger, pain, frustration, and hopelessness of watching someone you love keep turning over and over again to drugs. While I don't agree with him that it's a disease the same way cancer is, it was still very powerful and moving. His son, Nic, also wrote a memoir called "Tweak" about his own addiction, and I'm going to try to get a hold of a copy of it so I can see what he has to say for himself. I'm sure it will be a lot of whining and blaming and dodging of responsibility, like all tweakers, who seem to blame everyone but themselves for their addictions. We'll see.