Beautiful Boy is haunting me. I can’t stop thinking about the film after seeing it in the theater alone this past Saturday morning. While I never did crystal meth, I used to do several hardcore drugs and Beautiful Boy forced me to revisit those terrifying memories.
The hit list is long and innocent people plagued with the disease of addiction are dying in Southeast Asia. Filipino dictator Rodrigo Duterte is on a witch hunt for drug addicts and anyone involved in the drug trade.
Creed was a late ‘90s alternative-rock band with a Christian bent. Extreme paranoia gripped Creed lead singer Scott Stapp in November 2014, when he experienced his first major manic episode. He made a cryptic YouTube video documenting his hallucinations.
Kelly is a theatrical actress who got hooked on crystal meth and cocaine. In this excerpt from The Eccentrics, we see the irony of her addiction as it relates to her acting career.
