A personal account of one man's life as a crystal meth addict. Candid, gripping, and ultimately triumphant, Tweaked is that rarest of memoirs - a tale so vivid and personal in the telling it feels like fiction, but every word is true.

"There are moments when I suddenly realise that I'm a nice boy from Iowa who is entirely comfortable in a room full of freaks..." So begins Patrick Moore's unforgettable account of life as a crystal meth addict - a "tweaker." Like a wild ride down Alice's rabbit hole with a guide who is darkly funny and heartbreakingly honest. Tweaked chronicles a twenty-year trip that stretches from Moore's lonely childhood in Iowa with his grandmother, Zelma - an alcoholic artist who, when loaded, turns frozen food into crafts projects - to the day he sits, naked, in a Los Angeles rental, hallucinating about psycho-robbers while talking to a possum he's sure is God.

Along the way, there are acid trips at the V.F.W., Dexetrim study halls with his Bad Girl Posses in the seventies, teeth-grinding nights of dancing and anonymous sex in New York City's hottest eighties clubs, taking pictures of Andy Warhol, losing friends and lovers, and navigating a Byzantine underworld of cookers, club kids, dealers and colorful characters as intense as the drug itself.