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Growing Up on Methamphetamines

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By: Nic Sheff
Narrated by: Paul Michael Garcia
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Nic Sheff was drunk for the first time at age 11. 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 writing 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 of a person at odds with his past, with his family, with his substances, and with himself.

You can also hear Nic's father's perspective in his memoir: Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey through His Son's Meth Addiction.©2007 Nic Sheff (P)2008 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Biographies Health, Lifestyle & Relationships Literature & Fiction Fiction Memoir

Critic Reviews

"Garcia delivers a strong and commanding reading that perfectly expresses the rawness of Sheff's most personal recollections….Endlessly memorable." (AudioFile Magazine)

"Garcia becomes Sheff, offering a gritty and raw performance that demonstrates just how dire the circumstances surrounding Sheff's existence really were." (Publishers Weekly)

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I read some reviews of this book before deciding to sign up for Audible so I could listen to it, and many reviewers said the book is far too graphic and they were turned off by this. I didn't find this at all, not in the slightest, in fact as an ex addict myself I felt Nic could have added much more detail to certain scenes but was maybe prohibited from doing so by his editors. Extra detail wasn't needed though, it was raw and honest and even vulnerable. I found it triggering but also cathartic, and which surprised me, I wasn't aware I still had so much emotion buried inside me regarding my previous life.

If you're a current or ex addict this book will inspire you to look deeply inward and to try, try, try again. Because as Nic says in the book, relapse is part of recovery.

If you're not an addict and are questioning if you want that level of detail, rest assured there are many other beautiful layers of story and scenery in the book other than drug use, its just that the drug use is what gets focused on as its so unfamiliar to many readers.

Exactly as it needed to be

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I loved this book so much. Very well written and also well read.
I noted that other reviewers found there was too much detail, or was ‘boring’ - I completely disagree. I think they must not really understand, or want to understand, how it is to be an addict. This detail is do important. This book is a voice for all those who have suffered with addiction and who long for health in recovery.
Thank you Nic, for this book. I wish you all the love, health and happiness you deserve.

An amazing book - honest and raw

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The classic Jekyll and Hyde logic inside the user's head was extremely relatable,and as a current struggling participant myself was extremely insightful . I gained a valuable perspective from his journey.

Detailed debauchery.

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A heartfelt personal story of addiction and recovery. The author writes with such brutal, descriptive honesty that you feel you are going through his journey with him. I couldn’t stop listening, the narrator did a perfect job too.

An inspiring story of survival from addiction

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I loved the narration of this story I felt like it could have been Nic … such an interesting story of drug addiction and the causes behind it …

A very honest story and well narrated

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