Go Ask Alice - Anonymous pg. 171-213

This book has hooked me. I am recomending it to absolutely everyone! I suppose I will continue where I left off. She was drugged by someone and basically went insane while babysitting. She locked herself in a closet and scratched her skin raw. She was rushed to the hospital and was put in critical care. She finally convinced her parents this was not a trip she intended to go on - she was drugged by someone who obviously didn't like her. She thinks she knows who did it, but she will never find out for sure. Which to me is sort of upsetting ... Because I think it is utterly wrong and I think she deserves to know who did it - and I think who did it deserves to get in trouble for it. Life isn't fair. Anyway, her life just kept going downhill. She was transferred to another hospital, she couldn't return home, people were testifying that she had been trying for weeks to sell them LSD and marijuana and also said she was a pusher. On top of ALL that, she was sent to an insane asylum! She was terrified once she got there. She did not fit in at all ... She was constantly around people who were out of their minds and she felt out of her mind having to be there with them. She didn't think she fit in there - which I agree. She made a few "friends" and found out about their past which was almost worse than hers. She prayed to God to get out of the place she was for many nights. There was a school at the mental hospital that she started attending once the workers felt she was stable enough to go, which helped her some because it kept her busy. No matter how busy she was though, she was always wishing to return home with her family. Finally, after many long days she returned home. She goes on a vacation with her family and is really starting to get back into the swing of things. She takes piano classes, hangs out with her family, her long lost boyfriend Joel comes back into the picture, and her life is really starting to get back on track. She seemed genuinely happy. And then, on September 21st, she wrote her last diary entry. She talked about how strong she was now and how happy she was with Joel. She seemed completely normal. Three weeks after her last entry, her parents came home from a movie and found her dad. They called the police, but there was nothing they could do. No one knew if it was accidental or on purpose, whether she planned it or not. It shocked me.

This is one of many drug related stories ending in death. It blows my mind how someone can get so addicted to something that it takes their life. I guess thats reality though. It really sucks what drugs do to good people. From what I read, she was a really genuine nice person who just got involved with the wrong people at the wrong time. She came from a good family, and lived in a good neighborhood. Which goes to show it doesn't matter how wealthy you are, or how good of a family you come from. Addiction can happen to anyone, it just depends if you can handle the peer pressure or not. It saddens me that this happened to her, or anyone for that matter.