Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the process—particularly in the weeks after her husband’s harrowing death—Ono and Sheff became friends. When it came to telling ...

You are probably already hearing the buzz about the movie Beautiful Boy, the heart-wrenching true story of a family coping with their teenage son's addiction and recovery. Beautiful Boy is based on a ...

Part of the heartbreak of David Sheff's 2008 memoir Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction is reading how Nic Sheff's struggles with drug use hurt not just him, but his entire ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with author David Sheff and inmate Jarvis Jay Masters about Sheff's new book, The Buddhist on Death Row. Jarvis Jay Masters is a convicted murderer and an admired practitioner ...

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 ...

Bay Area-based journalist David Sheff and his son Nic Sheff have both written memoirs on their struggles with Nic's methamphetamine addiction. They join us to talk about the books — and about how ...

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