![]() David thus emphasizes the importance of maintaining a cautious optimism, as the disease of addiction is a treatable one. ![]() Yet even in the face of his addiction, Nic works to try to recover and redeem himself. Through the book, David paints a harrowing portrait of addiction and its horrific consequences on his family, illustrating how it is an incurable, lifelong disease. Throughout these years, Nic engages in increasingly dangerous behaviors that harm himself and also devastate his family. Despite David’s attempts to intervene, Nic becomes addicted to drugs as a teenager and becomes imperiled by that addiction as he undergoes a cycle of recovery and relapse in his early twenties. ![]() In Beautiful Boy, author David Sheff recounts the true story of his son Nic’s battle with meth addiction. ![]()
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