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The Book “Go Ask Alice”, written by an anonymous 15-year-old drug user, is about the degeneration of a life, soul and body. It is a tale of fear, courage, hate, pain, and the ultimate fight to survive. The story is tough and uncompromising, honest and disturbing. “Go Ask Alice” is a diary of a teenage girl who was involved with and addicted to drugs in the late sixties. This book starts as a teenager’s …

…I hope we have enough cans – we’ve got to! We’ve simply got to!” This isn’t exactly something a teenager would dream to do these days. What this book does show though, is how the social pressures of growing up are pretty much the same as they were 30 – 40 years back. Also, drugs seem to be more of a problem today, so this makes the book more compelling than ever for today’s readers.