ADDICT, a tale of drugs and recovery

251pp., paperback, Penguin Books, Cape Town, 2025

ISBN: 9781776392186

Milton Schorr on his teenage years of shoplifting, alcohol, and drugs that led to his addiction to heroin at the age of seventeen, the years of drug use, and his struggles to recover. He has now been sober for two decades.

Writer and actor Milton Schorr was born in 1981 in Cape Town. He is the author of the novels Strange Fish and A Man of the Road, won the Imbewu Scriptwriting award for his play, The Heroin Diaries, and has appeared in several Hollywood films.