Generally, I think books that show kids what drugs can do by real life examples is a great way to educate them. However, this is not a real diary even though it claims to be real even in the book. The plot just feels very weird and just not real. I found there to be some homophobic sentences in this book as well as some triggering events which were not properly discussed (in my opinion). However, I did find out that this book was apparently written in 1970, so that explains a lot. I was about to give this book two stars because I thought it could still give some educational value to some people but the epilogue killed it for me. This is just out of the blue and sounds weird because it is referring to the fact that keeping a diary is apparently necessary to stay alive. I think reading this book specifically in school nowadays would not provide the educational value you would like to get out of a diary-style book about drug (ab-)use. Hence, I can only give this book one star.

Generally, I think books that show kids what drugs can do by real life examples is a great way to educate them. However, this is not a real diary even though it claims to be real even in the book. The plot just feels very weird and just not real. I found there to be some homophobic sentences in this book as well as some triggering events which were not properly discussed (in my opinion). However, I did find out that this book was apparently written in 1970, so that explains a lot. I was about to give this book two stars because I thought it could still give some educational value to some people but the epilogue killed it for me. This is just out of the blue and sounds weird because it is referring to the fact that keeping a diary is apparently necessary to stay alive. I think reading this book specifically in school nowadays would not provide the educational value you would like to get out of a diary-style book about drug (ab-)use. Hence, I can only give this book one star.