Go Ask Alice

Go Ask Alice is based on a true story about an anonymous girl and her days as a runaway drug addict. This 15-year-old-girl is a middle-class teenager who struggles to fit in at school and to live up to her parents expectations. During the two rough years of her life, beginning just after she turns fifteen and ending after her seventeenth birthday, Alice experiments with drugs such as LSD and marijuana. She becomes hooked to these and many other drugs and feels she can no longer survive at home, she just needs to get out. Alice runs away from home twice and falls in to a "bad crowd" where she gets raped and taken advantage of. She is no longer able to be alone on the road anymore so for the last time she returns home and tries to change her life and be a better person.

This book is a good example of how each and everyone in the world can be under the influence of drugs when they fall in with the wrong people. Friends are very important people, especially when you choose the right ones to stay with. In this case, Alice was an outcast and was willing to do anything to fit in and be accepted. Although Alice had her own ways of handling things while under the influence, I can still relate to her in many ways. Being under the influence of drugs has changed my life drastically and till this day I regret ever being in that type of situation. Like Alice, taking drugs was a way to solve all my problems. It was a way to stop thinking, relax my mind and put everything behind me. It was easier to do this rather than actually cooping with the problem. Also, having people in your life that are constantly under the influence makes you feel obligated to take drugs as well. Its that feeling of being left out that pushed me into doing the wrong things.

At one point Alice knew that what she was doing was affecting a major part of her life. This drove her to completely change the life she was living. She straightened out her act and focused