Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

With a new afterword Now a Major Motion Picture 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 With a new afterword Now a Major Motion Picture 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.