Go Ask Alice Yourself: False Anti-Drug Propaganda

Go ask Alice yourself: False Anti-Drug Propaganda.

About 570,000 people die annually due to drug use, but “Alice” was not one of those numbers. The troubling controversial tales of a 15-year-old drug addict may not be as authentic as you once thought. Many have read the “diary” of a young girl 's life who ultimately lost her life due to her of curiosity of drugs, and the world around her in the late 60’s. There has been controversy over the years regarding the authenticity of the book, Go Ask Alice, regardless of whether the author actually existed, the fact remains that drug abuse and mental disorders are real issues, but help should always be delivered with honesty.

Go Ask Alice is a 1971 novel that is the self-proclaimed “real-life diary” an anonymous teenage girl, that has worked as a piece of anti-drug propaganda for forty-four years, little do readers know that it is truly written by Beatrice Sparks. The book was published with the following statement, “A lot of teenagers take drugs and runaway-some never make it back. This is

Consequently, there have been many fooled by “Alice’s” story and not only readers of this diary. Beatrice Sparks a Mormon youth counselor and therapist has gone on to fabricate plenty more “diaries, and “journals” in her time. From Alice to Jay a boy who got lost in the occult, Annie a teen mother, Nancy dying of AIDs, and many more stories purporting to be the true stories of these children 's lives. There have been real life consequences from the writings of Jay’s Journal, which she used bits of a real patient 's journal to create. The family of the troubled boy have come out saying that their son was never influenced, or apart of the occult among the encounters of his actual journal. This woman has tricked and is still fooling people all around the world. These kids need honesty and genuine help if we are ever to stop the youths contact with drugs and hard paths of life, not lies and fabricated stories that ruin real people