Review from Examiner.com of Teenage Degenerate

In 1996, “Teenage Degenerate”’s author Scott Sterling was nineteen and lost in adulthood with a thankless job and a future without any promise. The book is Sterling’s firsthand account of shedding his addiction to dangerous drugs as a way of growing up. His rapid decline once in the clutches of crystal methamphetamine addiction is a horror show magnified to highlight all the worst aspects.

“Up to that point, I had avoided getting meth sores or ‘meth mites,’ associated with meth addicts. The s...