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. David Sheff traces the first subtle warning signs: the denial, the 3 A.M. phone calls
(is it Nic? the police? the hospital?), the rehabs. 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.
Beautiful Boy is a fiercely candid memoir that brings immediacy to the emotional rollercoaster of loving a child
who seems beyond help.