Teenage Degenerate

A Memoir That Explores the Depths of Methamphetamine and Drug Addiction

By: S.C. Sterling

Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins

Breaking Bad meets The Basketball Diaries!

In 1996, Scott was nineteen and lost in adulthood with an endless job and no future ambitions. Teenage Degenerate is his story about drug addiction, music and growing up. Over the course of ten months, he quickly descends into the dark and dangerous world of crystal methamphetamine.

Scott experiments with crystal meth in a dark, deserted parking lot in the suburbs of Denver, Colorado and soon after his crew of misfits will do almost anything for their next high. One by one, family and friends disappear, and he is left alone with a decision to continue fighting or give up. This is his struggle to reclaim a normal life and the search for something real.

Teenage Degenerate is a brutally truthful, humorous and heartbreaking journey that explores the depths of addiction.

©2016 S.C. Sterling (P)2016 S.C. Sterling

Critic reviews

"An unflinching, effective story about the torments of drug dependence." ( Kirkus Review)

"Teenage Degenerate is a heartbreaking, vivid account of the disintegration of human lives caused by crystal meth addiction, and of one young man's fight to get free before it kills him." ( IndieReader)

"5 Stars!" ( Examiner.com)

100% Pure! No Cut!

This story is exactly what its like to be addicted to meth. The Shady people you associate with. The god awful situations you would never be in if you were clean. A must read if you want to attempt to understand what it is like to be in a downward spiral.

Not really what I expected

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

This book was written as more as a diary, hence the word memoir in the title. It went through the daily life of how this young man scored, sold and used meth. The words used would be those of a teenage boy when referring to having sex with girls and what and when he would. So that was a little surprising. He never got caught or had any of the consequences that come from addiction. But being a middle class boy living in the suburbs it was his view.

Binge worthy

This is a Raw, accurate account of addiction. The narration was good as well.

Review from a former addict

I loved this book, it was very different from my experience as a drug user, but I related to it in other ways. This is mostly a recounting of a drug dealer rather than just a a user, but the writing was really honest and good. I didn’t like how he didn’t explain the ending as * SPOILERS*


He said the person he was in with would come and kill his whole family, he never explained why that didn’t happen or what resulted of it. He does this in many chapters but that one in particular bothered me, as it kind of feels made up apart from everything else.

Also im surprised to see the lack of youtube content or interviews about the author, would love to watch one. This seems to be the case with most authors though.

Monotonous voice

Story ok but read so dispassionately, i got frustrated and stopped listening half way through