David Sheff

As seen on Oprah, author David Sheff visits with his book which explores his son Nic's drug addiction. Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction is journalist David Sheff's story of his harrowing struggle to help Nic overcome a methamphetamine addiction. Before meth, Nic was an exceptionally ... (more)bright and joyful child, a varsity athlete, an honor student, and an award-winning journalist. On meth, he became unrecognizable, a trembling wraith who stole money from his eight-year-old brother and lived on the streets. Beautiful Boy traces the first subtle warning signs, the denial (by child and parent alike), the 3 a.m. phone calls (is it Nic? the police? the hospital?), the multiple attempts at rehab and the multiple relapses, and, at last, the way past addiction.

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. In Tweak, Nic spares no detail in telling us the compelling, heartbreaking, and true story of his addiction and the ... (more)road to recovery. Nic's father joins him in this discussion on this journey through his son's addiction, with his own book, Beautiful Boy.

Freelance writer David Sheff discusses and signs his book. He will be joined by his son, Nic Sheff, who wrote his own book, Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines, about the agony of addiction. This discussion is one of a series of nationwide events sponsored by Starbucks. (Book World, The Washington ... (more)Post)