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Go Ask Alice Go Ask Alice is the diary of a young 15 year old drug addict. At the beginning of the book, "Alice" is the typical insecure middle-class teenager who only thinks about boys, diets and popularity. He never taught about taking drugs. This girl had a lot of self-esteem and was very happy. Her life changes for the worse when her family moves to a new city and she finds herself less popular and more isolated than ever. That's why buy this journal to express yourself with personal teachings. She becomes unhappy in the new city, she is delighted to be able to return to the old city to spend the summer with her grandparents. During this stay she is invited to a party by an old acquaintance; there he unintentionally ingests LSD that had been spiked into random bottles of Coca Cola and handed out to party guests as a game. The other guests had mistakenly assumed that Alice was aware of what the "game" entailed. Afterwards, he deliberately seeks out drugs and quickly moves on to marijuana, amphetamines, and casual sex. The fear of pregnancy and the return to her new city encourage her to abandon drugs; however he soon stumbles into the world of drugs where he finally finds acceptance. She begins dating a drug dealer and sells drugs to schoolchildren for him. After realizing that he was using her, she reports him to the police and runs away from home with her new friend Chris, moving to San Francisco. After being given heroin and then raped by Chris's boss, Shelia and her boyfriend, she and Chris return home. She is warmly welcomed by her family, but finds herself ostracized by the community and has difficulty maintaining her resolve to avoid drugs. She soon grows weak and, while drunk, runs away again. He spends time living on the streets, during which time his diary is undated and entries would have been recorded on scraps of paper or paper napkins. He finds himself having sexual relations with strangers and loses track of everything. When she returns home she vows to stay away from drugs completely and she succeeds. However, she is once again ostracized by her former friends who continue to label her a police informer, and is ignored by the "square" kids. While babysitting, Alice is drugged without her knowledge.