I'm going to start out with a classic. Go Ask Alice was first published in 1971. It's the diary of a 15-year-old girl's experiences with drugs.
We never learn the name of the narrator of Go Ask Alice. The title of the book is taken from a song from the sixties called "White Rabbit." The reference is to the down-the-rabbit-hole experience of drug use.
The book begins shortly after "Alice" has been embarrassed by a boy in school. He asked her out and then stood her up, and she's sure that everybody at school knows and is laughing at her. She's thrilled when her father announces a couple weeks later that the family is moving. However, it takes time to make new friends at her new school.
That summer, while at a party, one of her new friends slips her a hit LSD in a bottle of Coke, and "Alice" is amazed at the experience. This begins her transition into a completely different world. She vacillates violently between believing that drugs take her to amazing places and recognizing that those places are actually dangerous and scary.
Go Ask Alice deals with some very intense issues. The narrator talks about doing drugs, having sex, and running away. None of these things are glorified, and the confusion involved in each is evident in her story. This is definitely a realistic but cautionary tale.
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