The Hit by Melvin Burgess

People all around the world are talking about a new drug on the market, and it's called Death. Once it's swallowed, that's it. Approximately a week's worth of an amazing high, then death. Teenage Adam is a nobody, as emphasized by his father, and after a riot breaks out in his hometown when a famous singer dies onstage from reportedly taking Death, he starts to think the drug isn't a bad idea at all.