Tweak: Growing up on Methamphetamines by Nic Sheff is the autobiographical account of Nic’s struggles with addiction and his subsequent attempts at recovery. It forces the reader to confront the idea that not everything is as easy as the movies make it seem. The narrative opens with Nic in San Francisco, in the middle of a drug binge, having gotten out of rehab mere months before. He then reflects on the choices that he’s made in the past that have led him down the path to relapse, such as running away from both rehab and boarding school because he craved drugs and eventually stealing from his younger brother when he hit rock bottom. These indiscretions weigh on Nic’s mind as he spirals downward in the company of a drug dealer he met, named…show more content… This scares Nic even more than Lauren’s conversation with Death, and makes him willing to really try to commit to rehab. He moves back to the rehabilitation facility in LA that housed his recovery before the San Francisco relapse, where he meets back up with his previous sponsor Spencer and his nuclear family. Nic and Spencer go to 12-step meetings and go on long bike rides as Nic detoxes, with Spencer attempting to convert Nic to Christianity the entire time, claiming that spirituality will help Nic on the road to a full recovery. For a while, the exercise, both mentally and physically, helps. Nic stops craving meth and actually gets a job with Spencer’s wife, as a receptionist in her beauty salon. His family gets wind of his seemingly successful detox and invites him on a Hawaiian vacation with them, to celebrate how much better he’s doing than the last time they saw him, as he was stealing money from his younger brother to feed his addiction. Things seem to be working for our protagonist, and the reader is lulled into a false sense of
