Nicolas Sheff

Nicolas Sheff – Nicolas Sheff was drunk for the first time at age eleven. In the years that followed, he would smoke pot regularly, do cocaine and ecstasy, and develop addictions to methamphetamines and heroin. Even so, he felt like he would always be able to quit and put his life together whenever he needed to. It took a violent relapse one summer in California to convince him otherwise. Now in his early 20s, Sheff is a recovering drug addict and alcoholic who has written a memoir, Tweak, about his experience. He has also been published in Newsweek, Nerve, and the San Francisco Chronicle. In a voice that is raw and honest, he spares no detail in telling the compelling, heartbreaking, and true story of his relapse and the road to recovery. He plunges into the mental and physical depths of drug addiction, painting a picture of a person at odds with his past, with his family, with his substances, and with himself. Its a harrowing portrait—but not one without hope. In an extraordinary turn of events his father, David Sheff, has also simultaneously written a New York Times best-selling memoir about their experience, Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey through His Son’s Meth Addiction.

Does the Internet Really Make Everyone Crazy?

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Drugs are a frequent focus of these societal anxiety attacks, but this week, Newsweek tries to foment a classic panic against a more universal foe: the Internet. Headlined … (MORE: Hooked on Addiction: From Food to Drugs to Internet Porn). Dokoupil …
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Internet addict? I can quit whenever I want

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A recent article in Newsweek magazine states that the Internet poses the same addiction risk as drugs and alcohol. There are serious studies going on around the world that show that not only can the Internet become addictive but that it can lead to …
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