Reddit reviews Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

Finished American Kingpin recently fantastic book Highly recommended.

Next one I am looking to tackle is Beautiful Boy by Nick Sheff. New movie with Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet coming out soon should be a good read.

Wasn't there a book called Beautiful Boy that is a true story of addiction? Let me see if I can find it...:

https://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-Boy-Fathers-Journey-Addiction/dp/0547203888/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1487797569&sr=8-1&keywords=beautiful+boy

I read these during my Addictions class in Undergrad. I found them very interesting to read from the point of view of both the parent and the addict themselves. If you're interested in Addictions at all they may be of interest to you too.

Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines

Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

Someone mentioned A Child called It, and there is another one by the same writer about his time in foster care which is really interesting and gut-wrenching too:

The Lost Boy: A Foster Child's Search for the Love of a Family

Beautiful Boy by David Sheff

Again, you're making it clear that you don't understand how cause-and-effect works:

If we take 500 people who have a headache, and feed each of them a tablespoon of salt, and 25% of them report that their headache went away after they ate the tablespoon of salt, we have not established that "a tablespoon of salt cures headaches only in some cases." It doesn't work that way.

Everyone has suffered in their life. It's no surprise that drug-abusers like to point to the bad things that have happened to them and say "See, this is why I'm drunk every day and smoke crack!" I'm honestly very sorry about their suffering. But trauma/suffering doesn't cause anyone to become a drug abuser. And I say this as a former crack-smoker, who used to believe that I smoke crack because [an adult] beat the shit out of me when I was growing up.

It's utter bullshit. Go to an expensive rehab & you'll find plenty of prolific drug abusers that come from great families. They have all the privileges in the world. Fuck, read Beautiful Boy. What was Nic Sheff's trauma...Having divorced parents? Give me a fucking break. Meanwhile, I know people who have gone through some HORRIBLE shit who have NEVER touched drugs or alcohol. NEVER gambled.

There's no causal relationship between trauma & addiction.