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Author: Anonymous
Title: Go Ask Alice
Publisher: Avon Books, New York
Pages: 187 pp.
Date: 1973
Format: Novel
Descriptor: Social problems
Annotation:Based on the diary of a 15-year-old drug user, this novel chronicles her bizarre drug encounters and her struggle to escape the pull of the drug culture which feeds both her need for drugs and her anxieties.
Viewpoint towards drugs: negative.




Author: Burroughs, William, Jr.
Title: Kentucky Ham
Publisher: Button, New York
Pages: 194 pp.
Date: 1973
Format: Novel
Descriptor: Social problems
Annotation:A fictionalized autobiographical account of experiences with heroin, speed, paregoric, Desoxyn, and Dilaudid by the son of the author of Naked Lunch.
Viewpoint towards drugs: negative.






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