Nope, loved the drugs back then but gave them all up at 21

fear mongering adults say the darndest things!

Same - I’m 60 and am just finding this out. Did it keep you off of drugs? Not me. 

Yup. I read this book sometime in about 1972. It was like reading a horror novel with sex. Very thrilling. All the girls I knew read it. We’d read it out loud at pajama parties and squeal with horror and laughter. Good times. Didn’t really have the intended effect though. The main thing I remember about it was it was…

The fantastic podcast You’re Wrong About recently did a three-part series about Go Ask Alice and all it’s foibles. Part 3 included an interview with Emerson.

Even at 13, I knew it was BS when the narrator said “I did Acid, it was ok. But I can’t wait to try POT!”. I closed the book and gave it to my friend Adam never to be seen again (I stole it from the Library, anyway). I didn’t re-read it until I was in my 30's, and I was embarrassed the whole time

We all (high school pals) read this when it first came out. The unanimous reaction? “Bullshit.”

Yep. I remember finding this thing in the school library circa 1981 and I was like “holy shit!”

A sanctimonious scold turns out to be a liar profiteering in misery?

Exaggerations, completely made up details, lies and bad science to scare kids into behaving in a particular manner, you say? Falls right in line with the so-called “religious tracts”, aka propaganda.

The book received rave reviews from adults upon its release and was touted as a way to keep kids off drugs. Kids, meanwhile, were fascinated by this lurid tale of drugs and sex. It was regarded in my middle school as something like porn that we were actually allowed to access: grown-up and a little scary, but in the…

I found the book on my own in my mother’s room, and even as a teen, I noticed the literary whiplash between when “Alice” was clean (low-grade pseudo-Victorian dialogue) and when she was using again (lower-grade hippie trope-a-ganza), so I had my suspicions. I don’t know what drug education was like in the 70s, but I…

At the age of 60 this is the first time I’ve heard this. Read it as a tween and really thought it was true all these years. Shame on all involved.

When I was 19 abortion was Illegal in Michigan, my Best friend was pregnant and unmarried. Our Parents were Staunch Catholics and she couldn't tell them. We found someone from a blind ad in the newspaper in a very bad part of Detroit. I had to drop her off and pick her up 9hrs later to make a long story short she…

Women need to stop VOTING for republicans 

so you want people who did not help with the child’s creation to support the child after birth

But Hilary just didn’t INSPIRE me. 

Don’t let “pro-lifers” fool you. Plenty of them obtain abortions, then seek to whitewash their image while denying others the choice they allowed themselves.

Anyone else get choked up for the abortion clinic workers at this? I know what it’s like to go full throttle against the clock, but not at these stakes, and I’m definitely an empath and have been drinking, but damn. Goddexx bless the workers, and fuck Republicans.

I’m glad everything went well for you. I had an abortion at 8 weeks pregnant at an Austin clinic in 1999 when I lived there. It was easy-peasy, with no complications and no protesters, thankfully. I was in graduate school and there’s no way I would have been able to travel out of state. My heart breaks for everyone…