Reading David Sheff’s memoir Beautiful Boy about surviving the years his family faced the addiction of his oldest son, Nic, I was struck by Sheff’s detailed description of the phases of grief he went ...

Of all of the feedback I receive from this column, the majority comes from family members with a loved one caught up in the grips of addiction. I was reminded once again of their emotional, mental and ...

Beautiful Boy is author David Sheff’s moving account of his own son’s struggle with meth addiction, a subject many families can no doubt identify with. It’s also possible even more people can identify ...

When David Sheff decided to write an article about his son Nic’s addiction to methamphetamines for The New York Times Magazine, he worried about every word. Even though family members had given Sheff ...

It goes without saying that drug and alcohol abuse have a profound effect on the person afflicted with an addiction — but what about the families, friends and loved ones surrounding the addict? Nic ...