Product DescriptionOnly Mortals Can Be Heroes is a true story about a young boy, Adam Weaver, who experiences the pleasures and pains of the drug culture. Adam’s adventure describes how he started drugging at age 12 because he wanted to fit in with his peers. After marijuana and beer came Ritalin, Oxycontin, Ecstasy, LSD, uppers, downers, cocaine and heroin– and everything in between. The story is punctuated with a cocaine overdose at age 16 and a heroin overdose a few years later. . . . More >>
Only Mortals Can Be Heroes: A True Story about Drug Addiction
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Realistic view of what some parents are going through today. Gives a parent hope that their child MAY come out of the drug afflicted world and come back to them. Difficult but hopeful facts that parents are enduring everywhere.
Rating: 4 / 5
The content in this book is far from what you learn in grade school health class. They teach you the effects of drugs on your body, but Adam’s story fills you in on the effects on himself, as well as everyone around him. Growing up in Lewistown, I am familiar with the drug problems. Because I have only known stories of people with drug addictions, Adam’s story of his addiction is my first first-hand experience that I have read or heard about. It was an eye-opening experience, and is shocking that this problem occurs day after day. David Weaver did an excellent job putting his son’s life on paper, and thanks to my professor for requiring this book for class, this book is now a keeper!!
Rating: 5 / 5
This is a powerful story written in a powerful way. I’ve been fortunate enough to have never experimented with drugs. I have, however, always stuggled to understand how and why people could mess with drugs. The brutal honesty portrayed in this story helps me to be empathetic toward people who honestly stuggle with addiction of any sort. It’s easier said than done to “just quit. ” The pain, the deception, the physical addiction, the lies, the guilt, and the justification are all a part of an addict’s life. The way Adam’s story is told helps us get into the mind of an addict and we understand that they, too, are humans worthy of their family’s love and forgiveness. I don’t care who you are.
Rating: 5 / 5
Only Mortals Can Be Hero’s: A True Story About Drug Addiction by David J. Weaver
David Weaver had to endure the pain inflicted by his son, Adam for 12 years. Twelve years of Adam stealing, hocking, and doing drugs was enough to make a person insane, but David held on, he wanted the best for his son, he believed in him the whole time but quickly grew tired of Adam’s lies and thievery.
Adam Weaver had been incarcerated, beaten, and left on the streets because of his drug addiction. He stole from everyone, his friends, family, and he can never earn their respect back. His Grandmother’s wedding rings were pawned for a few rocks of crack, his Dad’s TV, Stereo, and insurmountable amounts of cash all ended up in the same place; a drug dealer’s hands or in Adam’s nose or veins.
He tried to undergo treatment at St. Jude’s but found himself back in the same mess. His father has done more than any one person could ever imagine for his son, and then to end up right back at square one all over again is so disheartening. I can honestly say at first I was feeling sorry for Adam, but the further on I read and the more he slipped back into the same old routine, I just continued to get more angry.
I did applaud Adam for seeking out the help, but I just couldn’t help not feeling sorry for him anymore after stealing his brother’s guitars for the third time, stealing money from his father’s hiding place, and hurting his Grandmother in such a way. Adam thought death would be the best thing for him, but there was a reason he was put on this earth. . . I hope he has found it.
Only Mortals Can Be Hero’s is told by Adam Weaver but as his father, David Weaver says in the beginning of the book, ” . . . he used my pen. ” This is a very real look at what cocaine and heroine can do. A twelve year struggle, and very few positive results lay within these pages. It is not what I would call a self help book, but more of peek into a drug addicts life. Do I think this would help an addict? No, but someone that has beat the addiction could sympathize with Adam. 4 Hearts
Rating: 4 / 5
I’ve read many books on the topic of addiction, but not one can compare to this one! I honestly believe that every family that has been touched by addiction should have a copy of this book to read over and over again. There is an overall message of a young man overcoming his addiction, and the love of a father who would not allow his son to die an addict. As you travel this journey with Adam, you will grow to understand what the words “love”, “choices”, “forgiveness”, and “life” mean. David Weaver is an exceptional writer who knows how to use words and a message of hope to delve deep into the heart and soul of a person. This is a passionate book about caring, daring, and sharing, and overcoming. Nobody will walk away from this book without being touched in some intimate way! Truly a “must read” book for everyone!
Rating: 5 / 5