Clean is at its best when the author grounds his conclusions in real-life trials and tribulations, whether his or others’.Unfortunately, the book is at times too thinly peopled, descending into rote lists of best practices and expert opinions, as exemplified by the chapter “Beginning Treatment”: “All support staff working with patients should be well trained and closely supervised” “Programs should evaluate whether it would be beneficial for family members to be involved in treatment” and so on. Sheff once held this belief, but his thinking evolved over years of grappling with his son’s addiction. today.As Sheff sees it, the chief impediments to preventing and treating addiction are the same ones that existed when Alcoholics Anonymous was founded 78 years ago: the stigma associated with addiction, and the belief that drug abuse is a choice, rather than a disease. Thus, Sheff the elder is back in his latest, he takes a macro look at the micro problem detailed in Beautiful Boy, to examine the state of addiction and addiction treatment-sadly lacking, he finds-in the U.S.
But while the story may have ended for Sheff’s family, the tragedy continues for the 20 million Americans who are currently addicted to drugs and/or alcohol. By the final page, he had been clean for a full year. Sheff’s bestselling Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction flipped the script on the traditional first-person addiction memoir, painting an agonizing portrait of what one family went through when its “beautiful boy,” Nic Sheff, descended into years of methamphetamine addiction, deceit, and relapse.
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