Co-Dependency

Age eleven was the first time Nic Sheff got “tweaked”. He tried alcohol for the first time and found an immediate attraction to it. The warm, enticing feeling of being thrown into a spiral of intoxication excited him. Early on he grew hungry for it; he needed it to feel sane. Methamphetamines seduced him in the same way. Nic became severely dependent on these substances to get through each day. This sort of co-dependency also translated into his social relationships, especially with his short-term girlfriend Lauren. They fully and completely invested themselves in each other. Nic felt the same sort of insanity without drugs as he did without Lauren. Was Nic’s substance abuse just a way to vent his dependency issues? Were all of his relationships this intense and unhealthy? Dig deeply into the plot of Tweak and discover all of these truths.