Nic Sheff: “It’s what I say to kids who are struggling like I struggled. Hold on. Don’t give up. Get help, and it’ll get better.” In the new book High, best-selling authors David Sheff and Nic Sheff shift the failed War on Drugs mantra of “Just Say No” to the more enlightened “Just Say Know.”… Continue reading David and Nic Sheff Help Adolescents Navigate Drugs, Alcohol, and Addiction in New Book
Tag: Tweak
The Character Without a Credit: Addiction in "Beautiful Boy"
David is desperate to fix Nic. He researches addiction and interviews doctors. He even takes crystal meth to try to better understand. Told largely from the perspective of David Sheff (Steve Carell), the father of 18-year-old Nic (Timothée Chalamet), who struggles with crystal meth addiction, Beautiful Boy is an agonizing film adaptation of memoirs written… Continue reading The Character Without a Credit: Addiction in "Beautiful Boy"
