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Title: Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines
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Manufacturer: Ginee Seo Books
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| Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines by Ginee Seo Books Less Helpful Then Frey's "A Million Little Pieces" |
Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines While perhaps entertaining for the armchair voyeur, Tweak is inherently unhelpful to those suffering from addiction, or to their families and support systems. What Tweak does provide is insight as to how many millions of chemically dependent people are so poorly served by traditional group treatment programs; programs that all but ignore the physiological components of addiction and rely instead on folklore and punitive, authoritarian measures to address a complex problem. Perhaps one of the causes of long addiction term is addiction treatment itself.
For those suburban armchair quarterbacks that "understand" urban issues by reading the newspaper, this may be an interesting tome. But the amateurish writing style proves the brilliant writing capabilities of James Frey who did a much better job of creating a pseudo-fictional insiders view of the life of an addict.
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| Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines by Ginee Seo Books Bravo! |
| This is an extremely well-written and engaging memoir of a drug-addicted boy. I read this in conjuction with "Beautiful Boy" written by the father of said boy and while I enjoyed them both, "Tweak" kept me up nights reading until I finished the book. Nic Sheff really lets the reader inside his head and brings us along on the devastating ride of addiction, and the difficult road of recovery. Read them both! |
| Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines by Ginee Seo Books Great Insight into an addict. |
| I was pleased with the book, Nic Sheff is very honest about the reality of drug use. It seems like he writes like how he talks. |
| Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines by Ginee Seo Books Not a fan |
| I don't know that I will ever read this book. I found it to be too depressing at this time in my life. However, I do realize the life of a drug addict is pretty depressing. |
| Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines by Ginee Seo Books Inspiring True Story |
It is true that this book contains many graphic portrayals of sex and drug usage. I doubt the author Nic Sheff could have written such an effective book without them, since they both underscore what Mr. Sheff did as a result of his addictions to heroin and methamphetamine. Not only was he shooting up these hard drugs, but he prostituted himself to support his habits.
That is not to say that this book is written merely for shock value. As a whole, I feel the reader can attain some hope that Mr. Sheff can succeed in the long run. He really does express later in the book a commitment to sobriety and a realization of his blunders.
Is that hope strong? As for me, I am concerned that he seems to take less of an approach to a "higher power" (one of the twelve steps in a twelve-step program) later in the book than he did in the middle part of it. It seems that the approach as a whole is to merely get rid of things from the past rather than on what he needs in the positive sense of things. Maybe that shall come with time.
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| Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines by Ginee Seo Books Product Description |
| Nic Sheff was drunk for the first time at age eleven. In the years that followed, he would regularly smoke pot, do cocaine and Ecstasy, and develop addictions to crystal meth and heroin. Even so, he felt like he would always be able to quit and put his life together whenever he needed to. It took a violent relapse one summer in California to convince him otherwise. In a voice that is raw and honest, Nic spares no detail in telling us the compelling, heartbreaking, and true story of his relapse and the road to recovery. As we watch Nic plunge the mental and physical depths of drug addiction, he paints a picture for us of a person at odds with his past, with his family, with his substances, and with himself. It's a harrowing portrait -- but not one without hope. |
