<b >A riveting first-person tale of addiction, in the tradition of <i >Go Ask Alice </i>and <i >Jay's Journal</i>.</b><P>The author of this diary began journaling on her sixteenth birthday. She lived in an upper middle class neighborhood in Santa Monica with her mom, dad, and Berkeley-bound older brother. She was a good girl, living a good life...but one party changed everything. One party, where she took one taste—and liked it. Really liked it.<P>Social drinking and drugging lead to more, faster, harder... She convinced herself that she was no different from anyone else who liked to party. But the evidence indicates otherwise: Soon she was she hanging out with an edgy crowd, blowing off school and everything she used to care about, all to find her next high.<P>But what goes up must come down, and everything—from her first swig, to her last breath—is chronicled in the diary she left behind.