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  • The Heroin Diaries: 10 Year Anniversary Edition

  • A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star
  • Written by: Nikki Sixx
  • Narrated by: Nikki Sixx, Sophie Kargman, Ross Marquand
  • Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (350 ratings)

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The Heroin Diaries: 10 Year Anniversary Edition

Written by: Nikki Sixx
Narrated by: Nikki Sixx, Sophie Kargman, Ross Marquand
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Publisher's Summary

In honor of the 10-year anniversary of The Heroin Diaries, Nikki Sixx's definitive and best-selling memoir on drug addiction is now available on audio for the first time, read by Nikki Sixx! This shocking, gripping, and at times darkly hilarious memoir explores Nikki's yearlong war with a vicious heroin addiction. Now more than ever, with opioid addiction ravaging our country and rising by 20 percent in the past year alone, Nikki's story of both his descent into drug-addled decay and subsequent recovery and transition into a rehabilitation advocate is now more relevant than ever.

When Mötley Crüe was at the height of its fame, there wasn't any drug Nikki Sixx wouldn't do. He spent days - sometimes alone, sometimes with other addicts, friends, and lovers - in a coke and heroin-fueled daze.

The highs were high, and Nikki's journal entries reveal some euphoria and joy. But the lows were lower, often ending with Nikki in his closet, surrounded by drug paraphernalia and wrapped in paranoid delusions.

Here, Nikki shares the diary entries - some poetic, some scatterbrained, some bizarre - of those dark times.

Brutally honest, utterly riveting, and surprisingly moving, The Heroin Diaries follows Nikki during the year he plunged to rock bottom - and his courageous decision to pick himself up and start living again.

©2007 Nikki Sixx (P)2017 S&S Audio

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amazing!

nikki is great at painting a picture of not just the wild rock and roll life but also the really sh***y times that can go along with it. he is a true testament that there IS life after heroine if you want there to be...

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insightful

eye opening , insightful, shocking , funny , fun read .And I don't read

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Sometimes tears of sadness, anger and compassion

I had read the book when it first came out. I wanted to know some of the “ins and outs “of someone who I had posters on my wall of. I had always heard tales of the “rock and roll” lifestyle but never really had a grasp of it...I still don’t but man, is this ever a crazy ride. Hearing Nikki read it in this audiobook is like a horrible dream/nightmare come true. As someone who has only seen people suffer from addiction in my family but never been a sufferer myself, it filled me with an immense sense of empathy and sadness. I celebrate anyone who has been an addict and managed to continue on and find their voice. To fight their way back. You are heroes and you are loved. I see you. We see you. You are important and you are beautiful ❤️

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The best book i have ever read.

This book has helped me with my own struggle with depression, and given me the courage to not relapse into my old ways. It was also a glimpse into the life of the artist I idolize the most.

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Thank you Nikki

Thank you so much for sharing you crazy , awesome & intense story it has opened my eyes made me cry , laugh and help me understand a lot more and made me realize that how lucky I relay am . Thank you Nikki for going through all of this and living to tell the tail stay awesome man
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Awesome!!

If you like rock memoirs, then you’ll like this one. It’s entertaining, funny, shocking, and best of all, it’s read by Nikki Six himself. I definitely recommend listening. #Audible1

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funny and sad and historical and inspirational

book had me often taking the long way to work so I can finish chapters

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A must read!

This is so so raw and honest! Poetic and interesting! Makes me appreciate everything so much more. Could not stop till the end.

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inspiring book.

read this book when it 1st came out a cpl times. it helped me at a time in my life when i needed it the most. you dont have to be battling addiction to get something out of it. the audio book is the best ive had to date.

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awesome storytelling

it's a great true life storey , holds nothing back , love that he tells the storey himself

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