'That could be anybody': Beautiful Boy charts a family's journey into addiction

Nic Sheff had his pick of colleges; he applied to half a dozen universities and they all wanted him. He was clever, artistic and charming; he lived with his father, stepmother and their small twins, who all adored him, in an idyllic bushland home David Sheff built as a family hideaway in Marin near the surf, another of Nic's passions. David and Nic shared music in the sort of companionable intimacy many parents of teenagers could only envy. Could life get any more golden?