Book #24 Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamine by Nick Sheff

Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines
By Nic Sheff
Published by Simon and Schuster, 2008
ISBN 1416913629, 9781416913627
325 pages

This book makes my teeth hurt. The few days I spent reading it - I kept getting headaches and I had no idea why, until I finished. I was clenching my teeth the whole read. I have a family member that has been a long time Methamphetamine user (for almost my whole life), I always describe my time with them like watching ten televisions all on different channels and the volume all the way up, It's so overwhelming that I grind/clench my teeth until my jaw is sore and my temples burn. This books reads on that pace.

There is not any time to breathe. Midway though the book things are looking up, he's cleaning up, I was feeling good about the story. Then I realized there's just too many pages left for everything not to fall apart. It was crushing. I really like that this book was about the good kid gone bad. This is a biography, and part of my hope is that he embellished parts - but the other part knows better.

Three out of Four Stars.