Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines Nic Sheff
2009
Weight: 10.4 oz
Method of Disposal: Donating
I recently picked this book off my shelf at random. I did not read it all in one day like many people said they did. I found it very difficult to get through. It follows the life of a drug addict and at every turn things get worse and worse and worse and better and worse. As a reader, you watched things happen and wanted to shout "no" or "stop" or "you know what he just did to you, right?" But the bad things happened anyway. It made me feel sick and sad. The desperation, the trying, the messing up. This book was successful. It gave you an inkling as to how painful addiction can be and how difficult it can be to overcome. The relapses and the pain caused along the way.
Nic describes being raised with money and around money. In many ways, this added to his addiction, as he could still money and housing from people who had it. It also is what gave him a chance at survival, as his parents/friends/whoever could afford to get him into rehabs repeatedly. I am afraid to Google his name, but I hope he was able to overcome once and for all this time. I cannot imagine how difficult it would be coming from any socio-economic situation.
