PaperDolls

A father comes forward to share the agony of loving a child on a path of self-destruction. Author David Sheff talks with Oprah about his son’s drug addiction and how his child descended into a world of heroin, cocaine, and crystal meth as he vividly recounts in his book “Beautiful Boy.”

PaperDolls

This is today peeps.

It's starting right now in my time zone.

Lily

Oh my goodness, it was an awesome program. It reminded me of my meth days and the day my own dad came looking for me. Great program, normally I do not watch oprah. Thanks for the heads up. Sheila

gypsytears

I missed it . It sounds like a good show though.

Tazman53

Hopefully they will do some reruns of this, I am sure Oprah made darn sure that this one is real to avoid a repeat of that fiasco over "A million Pieces!"

sugErspun

Read my mind Taz

Everyone thought Frey was sooo great when he was on there too..

That book of his Million Little Pieces did a lot of harm to someone I know, false hope.

Tazman53

Suger I don't know if you read any of that book or not, but one of my daughters got it and started to read it to me and I told her flat out that the man was lying, some of his stuff may have been based on actual experience, but some of his fiction parts were so far from the truth of detox, rehab, withdrawals, and drinking that any one who has been there and done that knew it was pure dee unadulterated BULL!!!!!

That book did as you said far more harm then it did good!!!

sugErspun

Yea I read it. Did more harm than good.

Entertaining though. Just should not have been passed off as non-fiction.

warrens

I remember first seeing Oprah in Chicago in the early 80's. She seemed like a breath of fresh air. A young black woman with a forum that she could not believe she had. She was humble and almost meek.

But then she inherited the earth.

Since then she has become a caricature of herself. I don't watch unless I need some ipecac. Like "the revolution" she has been appropriated by the forces of greed. In all her "goodness" and "omniscience" she does little (that I can see) that is not self serving and self aggrandizing.

My heroes are local...

warren

PaperDolls

Well, I missed Oprah.
We had bad weather and news had to break-in.
I'll have to read the book(s).

Done_With_It

It helped me. I read it at a time I didn't believe in myself or that I could
every give up my meth. The only solution I could think of at the time was
suicide, when that book fell into my hands, I got the courage somehow to
look for recovery.

I was sober by the time it came out about the truth, I never saw it as false hope.

I just saw it as 'His issue'. Took what I liked and left the rest.

Latte

I read Million Little Pieces after "the truth" came out. I enjoyed what he had to say, and if he is sober today then that is a good thing.

I watched that piece twice. I don't normally watch Oprah but I wanted to hear what her guests were saying.

I agree with Done-With-It, we take what we can use and leave the rest.

I'm looking forward to the books they spoke of and Nikki Sixx's new book too. I love to hear about how others get and stay clean, it helps me keep the faith.