Tweaked: A Crystal Meth Memoir

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Like a wild ride down Alice's rabbit hole with a guide who is darkly funny and heartbreakingly honest, Tweaked chronicles a twenty-year trip that stretches from Moore's lonely childhood in Iowa with his grandmother, Zelma - an alcoholic artist who, when loaded, turns frozen food into crafts projects - to the day he sits, naked, in a Los Angeles rental, hallucinating about psycho-robbers while talking to a possum he's sure is God. Candid, gripping, and ultimately triumphant, Tweaked is that rarest of memoirs - a tale so vivid and personal in the telling it feels like fiction.

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Patrick Moore has worked as a journalist for the Los Angeles Times, Newsday, the Chicago Tribune, the New York Times, the Village Voice and the Advocate. In recognition of his work for the Los Angeles Times and Newsday, he was nominated for a 2005 GLAAD Media Award as outstanding newspaper columnist. As an activist, Patrick was an early member of Act-Up/New York. He was also the founding director of the Estate Project for Artists with AIDS, which pioneered the idea of preserving artworks as cultural artifacts of the AIDS crisis.