Troubled Teens Resources

Teen age drug abuse is fought on different battlegrounds with different weapons by all kinds of different warriors. By far the most passionate are those who have lost a loved one to drug abuse. Second to them are those former addicts who have beaten back their demons and want to help other addicts in their fight. When that former addict is a well known rock star, troubled teens tend to listen.

Alice Cooper is one such well known name and now comes Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx and his new released chronicle about the horrors of his life as a heroin addict,’The Heroin Diaries, a Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star.’

Part visceral work of art, part howl of anguish and pain, the book chronicles the life and technical death (Sixx actually overdosed and was pronounced dead twice) of a guy who supposedly had it all and did his best every day to destroy it and the talent that brought it to him.

“It was important to show it all,” Sixx said. “I was legally declared dead from an overdose and instead of learning from it I lived to do it again. That’s how sick I was. It’s not cool. It’s not being a rock star. It’s being an addict.”
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“I wanted to do everything I could to get this story out to people, whether it’s to read the book or listen to the music,” Sixx said. “I was asleep and in pain for so long. Now I’m truly awake and it feels amazing and I want people to hear that through whatever medium it takes.”
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