David Sheff

摘要

David Sheff wrote a beautiful book called, appropriately enough, Beautiful Boy-A Father's Journey Through His Son's Meth Addiction, one of the most compelling portrayals I've ever read of a parent's loss of a child to drugs. In this journey, Sheff, 53, faces the overdose of his son Nic and his inability to protect him, the relapses that inevitably occur and the family's struggle to cope with it all.rnMany people still call addiction a moral failing. But 20 years of research tells us that it's a disease that results in part from the damage that abused drugs do to the brain circuits required for self-control. Unfortunately that damage is long-lasting, meaning that the person remains vulnerable to relapse even after years of successful rehabilitation.