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'Clean,' by David Sheff
It must be the purest agony to be the parent of a child succumbing to drug addiction. David Sheff's previous book was an account of his son Nic's descent from a thoughtful boy to a sullen pothead to a self-destructive methamphetamine fiend, and of his …
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Isabel Allende on "Maya's Notebook," Drug Addiction, 1973 Chilean Coup
The best-selling Chilean novelist Isabel Allende is out with a new book, "Maya's Notebook: A Novel." It tells the story of a teenager named Maya Vidal and her struggles with drug addiction, grief and history. Although a work of fiction, the story is …
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Tom Sizemore discusses drug abuse in autobiographical book
It refers to a man who, by his own admission, is nothing but a "spoiled movie star," "an arrogant fool" who at one point is a "hope-to-die" an addict. The book, which was released on April 9, gives the reader a a behind-the-scenes look at the actor's …
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David Sheff: Watching my son become a drug addict
I wrote about the years our family lived through his addiction in the book Beautiful Boy. Readers of it and of Nic's own books — a pair of memoirs, Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines and We All Fall Down— know many of the gory details. Over the …
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