Editing Go Ask Alice (section)

===Educational use===
Although school boards and committees reached varying conclusions about whether ''Go Ask Alice'' had literary value,<ref name=boettner /><ref name=clarke /> educators generally viewed it as a strong cautionary warning against drug use.<ref name=clarke /> It was recommended to parents and assigned or distributed in some schools as an anti-drug teaching tool. However, some adults who read the book as teens or [[preadolescence|pre-teens]] have written that they paid little attention to the anti-drug message and instead related to the diarist's thoughts and emotions,<ref name=jamison /><ref>{{cite magazine|last=Moss |first=Gabrielle |date=May 2006 |title=Guidance Counseling |url=http://www.lostmag.com/issue6/counseling.php |magazine=LOST Magazine |location=New York City |publisher=lostmag.com |access-date=2017-01-06 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120617014549/http://www.lostmag.com/issue6/counseling.php |archive-date=2012-06-17 }}</ref> or vicariously experienced the thrills of her rebellious behavior.<ref name=white /><ref name=adams /> Reading the book for such vicarious experience has been suggested as a positive alternative to actually doing drugs.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Anderson |first=Julie |date=November 2002 |title=When Parents' Rights Are Wrong: Should Parents Be Able to Prohibit Their Kids From Reading School Library Books? |journal=School Library Journal |volume=48 |issue=11 |pages=43 |via=ProQuest  }}</ref> ''Go Ask Alice'' has also been used in curricula dealing with mood swings<ref>{{cite book |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=A Study Guide for Joanne Greenberg's "I Never Promised You a Rose Garden" |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ulCVDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT33 |location=Farmington Hills, Michigan |publisher=[[Gale (publisher)|Gale]], [[Cengage Learning]] |page=PT 33 |date=2016 |isbn=9781410348944 |series=Novels for Students |quote=The novel ''Go Ask Alice'' (1971), by James Jennings, written in diary form, tell [sic] the story of a teenage girl who suffers from terrible mood swings that are exacerbated by drug use. }} Although this source identifies the book's author as "James Jennings", without further discussion, no other reliable source support has been found for a person named James Jennings being an author or co-author of the book.</ref> and death.
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