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Como puede un nino estudioso y deportista acabar siendo drogadicto y vagabundo?Que le paso a mi hijo precioso? A nuestra familia? En que me equivoque? Esas son las tormentosas preguntas que acompanan a David Sheff en su viaje a traves de la adiccion a las drogas y los intentos de desintoxicarse de su hijo Nic. Antes de hacerse adicto a las drogas, Nic Sheff era un nino encantador, alegre y simpatico. Adorado por todos, era un buen estudiante y un gran atleta. Pero las metanfetaminas le convirtieron en un tembloroso espectro que mentia, robaba y llego a vivir en las calles. David Sheff traza las primeras senales de alarma, la negacion, la llamada a las 3 de la manana--sera Nic? la policia? el hospital? Su preocupacion obsesiva por Nic se convirtio en otro tipo de adiccion, tambien con tragicas consecuencias.Mi hijo precioso es una cronica candida y sincera sobre como las adicciones no solo danan a los adictos, sino a todos los que les rodean. David Sheff ha escrito un poderoso y conmovedor retrato de familia con el que todos los lectores se identificaran, sobre todo aquellas personas que se enfrentan al terrible problema de la adiccion. "From the Trade Paperback edition."
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Methamphetamine, Methamphetamine abuse - Treatment - California, Father-Child Relations, Drug abuse - Treatment - California, Drug abuse, Children of divorced parents, Amphetamine-Related Disorders, Therapy, Treatment, Methamphetamine abuse, Children of divorced parents - California, Addicts, Family relationships, Parents of drug addicts, Biography, Abuso de drogas, Hijos de padres divorciados, Abuso de metanfetamina, Tratamiento, Drug abuse, treatment, Drug addicts, rehabilitation, Fathers and sons, Drug addicts, family relationships, nyt:paperback-nonfiction=2009-02-01, New York Times bestseller, California, social conditionsPeople
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Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
2009, Simon & Schuster, Limited
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Beautiful boy: a father's journey through his son's addiction
2008, Center Point Pub., Brand: Center Point Large Print, Center Point Pub
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Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
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Beautiful boy: a father's journey through his son's crystal meth addiction
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What had happened to my beautiful boy? To our family? What did I do wrong? Those are the wrenching questions that haunted every moment of David Sheff’s journey through his son Nic’s addiction to drugs and tentative steps toward recovery. Before Nic Sheff became addicted to crystal meth, he was a charming boy, joyous and funny, a varsity athlete and honor student adored by his two younger siblings. After meth, he was a trembling wraith who lied, stole, and lived on the streets.
David Sheff traces the first subtle warning signs: the denial, the 3 A.M. phone calls (is it Nic? The police? The hospital?), the rehabs. His preoccupation with Nic became an addiction in itself, and the obsessive worry and stress took a tremendous toll, but as a journalist, he instinctively researched every avenue of treatment that might save his son and refused to give up on him. Beautiful Boy is a fiercely candid memoir that brings immediacy to the emotional roller coaster of loving a child who seems beyond help
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