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“It was so excruciating I could barely get through it,” author David Sheff said of his son Nic’s first book, an autobiography about crystal-meth addiction, in a recent interview with Seven Days. Sheff captured his own side of the story in Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction, a gut-wrenching, best-selling memoir that earned him a spot on Time magazine’s 2009 list of the world’s 100 most influential people. In a talk on Thursday, Sheff draws on his own experiences witnessing drug addiction firsthand while sharing research about new forms of prevention and treatment. After, Mitch Barron moderates a panel discussion about drug use in Vermont with St. Albans pediatrician Fred Holmes and two recovering prescription-pill addicts.

Read Ken Picard's interview with Sheff on Blurt, the Seven Days staff blog, at sevendaysvt.com.