The Heroin Diaries: Ten Year Anniversary Edition: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star

Nikki Sixx

Oct 2017 · Simon and Schuster · Narrated by Nikki Sixx, Sophie Kargman, and Ross Marquand

About this audiobook

In honor of the ten-year anniversary of The Heroin Diaries, Nikki Sixx’s definitive and bestselling memoir on drug addiction is reissued with exclusive new content. This shocking, gripping, and at times darkly hilarious memoir explores Nikki’s yearlong war with a vicious heroin addiction. Now more than ever, with opioid addiction ravaging our country and rising by twenty percent in the past year alone, Nikki’s story of both his descent into drug-addled decay and subsequent recovery and transition into a rehabilitation advocate are now more relevant than ever.

When Mötley Crüe was at the height of its fame, there wasn’t any drug Nikki Sixx wouldn’t do. He spent days—sometimes alone, sometimes with other addicts, friends, and lovers—in a coke- and heroin-fueled daze.

The highs were high, and Nikki's journal entries reveal some euphoria and joy. But the lows were lower, often ending with Nikki in his closet, surrounded by drug paraphernalia and wrapped in paranoid delusions.

Here, Nikki shares the diary entries—some poetic, some scatterbrained, some bizarre—of those dark times. Joining him are Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars, Slash, Rick Nielsen, Bob Rock, and a host of ex-managers, ex-lovers, and more.

Brutally honest, utterly riveting, and surprisingly moving, The Heroin Diaries follows Nikki during the year he plunged to rock bottom—and his courageous decision to pick himself up and start living again.

Ratings and reviews

Aside from being a rock n' roll star, I basically found myself in the same rut as Nikki. It is men and women like Sixx all the way down to normal every day people like myself that sometimes need to hear and see it for real...anything is possible and success will follow if you really want what is best for yourself first. Nikki has always been an idol to me through music as well as the similarities of a year under a dark cloud. If he made it through and I made it through then so can anyone else with the will power to make the right decision whether its prior to addiction or post. Much love to Nikki and The Crew.

Nikki Sixx is so real in sharing everything he went through with his addiction.he shared how he felt and how he fought to get sober.I never had a heroin addiction and what i do know of it is that its hard to get clean they go through so much.NIKKI SIXX is a example that it can be done..

This is such an amazing book, it helped me alot, it honestly saved my life I almost died twice and was still using but after reading this I realized I can live happily sober and not use anymore

About the author

International rock icon Nikki Sixx is one of the founding members of Mötley Crüe and Sixx:A.M., a two-time New York Times bestselling author of The Heroin Diaries and This Is Gonna Hurt, co-founder of rock couture fashion line Royal Underground, philanthropist, photographer, and host of the nationally syndicated radio show Sixx Sense, which airs on over 115 stations, and The Side Show Countdown. As the creative force behind a multitude of projects, Sixx never stops inventing new ways to express himself and continues to unveil his unusual points of view with new projects. In addition to selling over 100 million albums with Mötley Crüe and Sixx:A.M., songs written by Sixx have been used in national commercials, his photographs have been published by the New York Post, and he’s raised several hundred thousand dollars through his Running Wild In The Night charity for Covenant House California.