Gemma:"My parents are incompetent. They haven't got a clue..."<P>Tar: "I know it sounds stupid, but it was like the flowers had come out for Gemma..."<P>Lily: "They did everything they could to pin me down...my mum, my dad, school..."<P>Rob:"We stood for a while breathing big long breaths of air. It was cold and pure...You could feel it inside you, doing you good."<P>How do these teens come to run away from home? To be users? Addicts? As their stories intertwine and build, SMACK never lets up the pace. It is a book about people, families--real and those constructed by young people with no one to turn to but each other. SMACK is a book about a drug and the hold it can have. Written directly for its audience of young people and unflinching in its honesty, SMACK is the teen book of the year.