Tweaked: A Crystal Meth Memoir

Growing up in Iowa, Patrick Moore knew he was gay - and that Iowa was boring. There wasn't much to do but get smashed or high. After graduating from high school, he escaped to college in Pittsburgh, where he met a man named Dino and began an intense love affair. Dino eventually was diagnosed with AIDS, and as Moore cared for his dying lover,?he found relief in activism, getting arrested during early ACT UP protests. He also found more sinister distraction in drugs, especially crystal meth and coke. Eventually, he moved to Los Angeles and got sober. Candid, gripping, and ultimately triumphant, this is a memoir so vivid it feels like fiction.

Paperback, 215 pages, published 2006