The day you start abusing drugs your life forever changes. Drugs damage your brain, your heart and most importantly, your soul. You are stripped of your innocence and are trapped in a downward spiral that some come back from and others do not. Beatrice Sparks wrote, Go Ask Alice, as a found diary to appeal to the reader on the detrimental effects of drug use and the struggle to quit. The diary format has a greater impact because it shows you that anyone can fall victim to the horrors of drug addiction. It is a message to not repeat the same mistakes as the so called “Alice”. Experimenting is apart of life; it was a big part of Alice’s life and caused her great problems which evidently lead to her death. Drugs shifted Alice’s views on her