My fear of agreeing to allow others to make a movie that would expose our family has turned to gratitude. The notes that flood in remind me that almost everyone is suffering, whether with addiction or other challenges. There are no easy answers, but isolation and silence make problems worse. Though sharing our stories isn’t a panacea, we are reminded we aren’t alone. And we aren’t. We can be supported. Healing can begin. Kroll, Justin (September 22, 2015). "Felix van Groeningen to Direct 'Beautiful Boy' for New Regency and Plan B (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety . Retrieved August 22, 2017. Gornall, Jonathan (29 August 2005). "Woman and boy: bad, not beautiful". The Times. Archived from the original on 14 October 2021 . Retrieved 18 April 2022.

To spread the word, I wrote about our family’s experience in an article in the New York Times Magazine. When it hit the newsstands, I received an outpouring of letters from people who’d been or were then facing their own or a loved one’s addiction. Like I’d done, they’d kept it a secret, often from their closest family and friends, bcause they didn’t want to be judged. Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now". The New York Times. April 28, 2021. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved September 30, 2021. People wrote that the movie led to reconciliations in families shattered by addiction. A boy wrote: “I just got out of detox and went to the movie with my dad. In the dark theatre I suddenly realised he was holding my hand. I have never been so grateful to cry so much.” Outside I was met by a line of people who wanted to talk. Their emotions were palpable. Some could barely speak because they were sobbing. They said versions of the same thing: “You told my story.”Programma 45e Film Fest Gent bekend!"[Program 45th Film Fest Gent known!] (in Dutch). Film Fest Gent. September 20, 2018. Archived from the original on October 24, 2018 . Retrieved October 11, 2018. He received media awards from College on Problems of Drug Dependence (CPDD), American Society of Addiction Medicine, the Partnership for Drug-free Kids, American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP), American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM), and was the first recipient of the American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry (AAAP) Arts and Literature Award. [ citation needed] Views on addiction [ edit ]

Warren, Greta (25 November 2015). "Is no-platforming the right approach?". Trinity News . Retrieved 18 April 2022. He has a disease, but addiction is the most baffling of all diseases, unique in the blame, shame, and humiliation that accompany it.

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What was going on? What I now know is that though on the outside it appeared that Nic was doing well, he suffered inside, plagued by self-doubt, anxiety and depression. This supersensitive and tasteful movie is all but insufferable, suppressing a sob at the tragedy of drug addiction afflicting someone so young and “beautiful”. It is based on what is effectively a matching set of memoirs: Beautiful Boy, by author and journalist David Sheff, his harrowing account of trying to help his son Nic battle crystal meth addiction, and Tweak – by Nic Sheff himself, about these same experiences, the author now, thankfully, eight years clean. Der Knabe (in German). Translated by Sylvia Strasser. Hildesheim: Gerstenberg Verlag [ de]. 2003. ISBN 978-3-8067-2920-7. The real David Sheff (left) admits to using drugs when he was younger, a fact that he shared with his son. Steve Carell as Sheff in the Beautiful Boy movie.