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Growing Up on Methamphetamines

by Nic Sheff (Author) (edit contributors)

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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... read more

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If you are a fan of books about drugs, sex, and streets. This book is perfect for you. I loved this book it is officially one of my favorite books i have ever read. Tweak. Let's start out by saying that this book has a lot of twists and turns. What this book is mainly about is what this Nic... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

If you are a fan of books about drugs, sex, and streets. This book is perfect for you. I loved this book it is officially one of my favorite books i have ever read. Tweak. Let's start out by saying that this book has a lot of twists and turns. What this book is mainly about is what this Nic goes through because of drugs and alcohol. He has a perfect life including his parents and siblings, he has good grades and lives in a good house, he has never had to worry about anything to eat, his parents have always supported him. Since he has a perfect life, he doesn't think that starting to do drugs and drinking alcohol won't hurt his parents or his family. Meth is a very dangerous drug because it only takes one time to get addicted to it. When he first got drunk he was 11 at the age and since his parents did not tell him anything or told him too stop he thought their was nothing wrong with that. Until he lost his best friend which at the moment was his dad. When his dad kicked him out the first thing he turned around too was drugs. By that time he was already addicted it took his family too kick him out at least 6 years by the time he was completely addicted. All he wanted to eat drink and breath were drugs. Whether they were small amounts that he found on the streets or small amounts that he found in the garbage can. He started to try new drugs but a drug that completely changed his life was Meth. The reason this drug changed his life was the fact that it has you believing that you are a much better person than you were before taking it. Another reason why this drug changed his life was the fact that when he did it he felt like he didn't need anything or anyone but it. Besides all this he wasn't really having the best of luck with love. All he wanted was sex, meth, and sleep. No other girl would like that unless she is in the same condition as him. And yes their was a girl that was going through exactly what he was going through. Her name was Lauren. She was going through exactly what he was going through. Understanding each other was what made them have sex almost every day, right after they would do meth. Both trying to quit but none of them succeeding to it Nic decided to step it up and call home. Takes alot of courage to call back since he hasn't spoke to his dad in almost a year. As hard as it was he did it, he called home. Thinking it was going to be easy to quit not knowing it was going to be harder than what you think is what made things harder than they were thinking. He eventually figured a way too quit was not easy but it happened.

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  • “Just remember, Nic, the only thing that ever really gives us any genuine satisfaction is caring for other people. It doesn't matter how popular we are or anything.”
    Spencer
  • “You have to be whole and complete for yourself. No one can give you that. You have to know who you are--what others say is irrelevant. (Danielle Cole)”
    Spencer
  • “I came to believe that a power greater than ourselves can restore us to sanity. (Danielle Cole)”
    Spencer
  • “But, sadly, I know this is all a fansty. I have to live as myself and that I cannever escape--no matter how hard I try. (Danielle Cole)”
    Nic Sheff
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  • “As long as you look for someone else to validate who you are by seeking their approval, you are setting yourself up for disaster. You have to be whole and complete in yourself. No one can give you that. You have to know who you are—what others say is irrelevant.”
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  • One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Seven candles burning and smoking—lit—seven flames of doubt, fear, sorrow, pain, waste, hopelessness, despair.
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  • There is this crazy fear I have of being rejected by anyone—even people I don’t really care about. It’s always better to leave them first, cut all ties, and disappear. They can’t hurt me that way—no one can.
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  • Isn’t that the greatest gift in the world—just not to care? I feel so grateful for it. That’s nothing I ever knew sober.
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  • “Being sober isn’t just about not using. Being sober is about the joy a life of clarity and living by spiritual principles can bring. There is nothing greater than that. Forget drugs. Forget needles. Forget everything. We are living to experience the undiluted amazement of life on life’s terms.
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  • Now is now. That’s what he always tells me. There is nothing but now and I try to hold on to that. The past is gone, the future hasn’t happened yet. This, right here, is all there is.
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  • fix the outsides and maybe my insides won’t be such a dark place.
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  • I just hadn’t been willing to fight through the difficult moments with the faith that it would get better—that maybe, one day, I could have what Spencer had—a beautiful life.
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  • They say suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Well, the problem of being human isn’t really so temporary and sometimes a permanent solution seems like the best possible way out.
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  • But, when I was growing up, the one thing that did help me not to feel so isolated and crazy was reading—especially books by authors who fearlessly examined and exposed their highly imperfect inner lives. Books like Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima; Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller; Try by Dennis Cooper; and, of course, the works of authors like Bukowski, Salinger, Hesse, Bataille, Iceberg Slim, and Murakami.
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I'd heard rumors about what happened to Lauren.

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  1. Nic Sheff (Author)

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Publisher: Ginee Seo Books
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Publication Date: 2008
ISBN: 9781416913627
Page Count: 325

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Reading Level: Young Adults

Definitely HS+. There is some sex, and (obviously) a tremendous amount of drug use, much of which is shed in in a rather attractive light.

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