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The title of this book (Go Ask Alice) is in reference to the Jefferson Airplane song "White Rabbit."
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(Her birthday is the day after her dad's.)
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Alice stayed at her grandparent's house the whole summer because her new best friend Beth went to Jewish summer camp and this is when she takes drugs for the very first time.
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While at a party, Alice drank a can of coke when she was playing "Button,Button Who's Got the Button?" 10 out of the 14 cans of coke contained LSD and she happened to be one of the unfortunate kids at the party to get one.
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A few days after mistakenly taking drugs for the first time, Alice met Bill on the way to the library. He showed her introduced her to new drugs like torpedos and Speed. At this point in the book, she believes she is just "trying" drugs and that she really isn't hooked, but she is starting to become a drug-addict.
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Alice is under so much stress about what happened in the past few weeks that she needs an escape from all her thoughts. "Actually I don't need the sleep as much as I need the escape. It's a wonderful way to escape. I think I can't stand it and then I just take a pill and wait for sweet nothingness to take over. At this stage in my life nothingness is way better than somethingness."
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Alice meets Chris at the little boutique where she works.
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Chris sets Alice up with her boyfriend Richie's roommate Ted. Richie and Ted are in college and do drugs so the two girls sell drugs to help pay for their tuition.
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They ran away to SF after they turned in two college drug-users to the police. When they first arrived, they found a "spiderhole" apartment that was small and filthy and spent a few days searching for jobs.
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The two girls attend a party hosted by Chris's employer, Shelia. While they're there, the smell of pot catches their attention and when one of the men passes a joint to Alice, she just couldn't resist.
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Once school started again, people she used to supply with drugs were shocked that she was now clean. And Alice and Chris tried everything to keep their mind off drugs including taking trips on weekends.
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Chris invites Alice over while her parents are gone. And once Alice gets there, she knows the smell. They both cry and smoke marijuana together.
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After the police raid Chris's house Alice and Chris are put on probation and are restricted from seeing eachother.
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She continues to do drugs without her family's knowledge and while she's high, she hitchhikes to Denver. (The rest of her diary entries while she is in Denver are written on napkins and paper bags without dates.)
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After she returns from Denver, she starts a new diary and "a new life." She has even given up drugs for good and plans to try to make kids understand that getting into drugs isn't worth it.
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After someone puts a joint in her purse, Alice cuts class and takes a cab over to her dad's office out of being afraid.
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Joel is a very good person and even makes Alice a better person. He studies at the university where her dad works and works as a janitor to pay for school.
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As the kids at school continue to harass Alice and her family, she goes to Joel for advice and consoling.
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When she wakes up, she notices her fingers are chewed to the bone and her face and body all clawed up. Her father says the chocolate-covered peanuts she was eating while baby-sitting were dosed with LSD.
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When she finds out, her dad tells her that when her case was brought upon a juvenile court, Jan (one of the drug users at school) and another girl testified that Alice had still been on drugs and selling them.
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Alice gets to go home after her father gets Jan to sign an affidavit saying that she wasn't pushing at school.
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That morning, Alice got up and worried about going back to school that day. "But I know it's all going to be all right because I have Joel and my new super straight friends and they'll help me." Then she decided not to keep another diary, although it's saved her sanity "a hundred, thousand, million times.
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The epilogue says that the subject of this book died three weeks after her decision not to keep another diary. According to the book, her parents came home from a movie and found her dead from an overdose. They called the police and the hospital but there was nothing anyone could do. Whether it was accidental or premeditated... no one knows. Along with that, it says she was only one of thousands of drug deaths that year.
