Scar Tissue is an autobiography by The Red Hot Chili Peppers front man Anthony Kiedis. Throughout the book he chronicles his decade’s long struggle with the illness of drug addiction. He tells the story from the beginning, telling of his parents and his upbringing. He recounts the first time his dad, a drug dealer, gave him marijuana at the age of eleven. From there his drug use expands. With his father he regularly took Quaaludes and other drugs on the LA club scene. His drug use continues throughout his preteens into his high school years. During high school he meets his best friends, band mates and fellow drug users. Once they become a band and achieve fame his drug use spirals. He becomes addicted to cocaine and heroin. His addiction is spurred by his fame and tumulus relationships with women. His memoir tells of the retched situations he was in because of his addiction. He also tells of the drugs effect on his career, health and relationships. For over ten years, Kiedis is in and out of rehab, relapsing each time. He finally returned to a state of relative health in 2000 when he finally got clean.
Although Scar Tissue chronicles
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He tried and failed to stop using cocaine and heroin numerous times. His constant relapse made it so that his illness escaped cure. What Anthony Kiedis lived through is clearly far from a restitution narrative. What he lost was not regained. Kiedis’s self was irrevocably transformed, he never returned to being the innocent promising person he was before the disease. He also did not completely regain his health. Kiedis, like most former addicts, still struggles to remain clean. He abstains from alcohol and opioid pain killers to avoid relapse. Moreover, he still suffers from Hepatitis C as a result of his drug use. His narrative is one of chaos because it is undeniably characterized by