Crank by Ellen Hopkins-Critical thinking question

My critical thinking question was what really hard things are happening in this text? Are these things happening in the world now? Where?

            In the book Crank by Ellen Hopkins hard things are happening to the main character. The one major thing that has been hard on the main character Kristina AKA Bree is Drug addiction.  This all accrued when Kristina was visiting her dad in Albuquerque. When she was visiting her dad Kristina meet a boy and she instantly fell in love with him. The boy was sort of a bad influence but Kristina still wanted to date him.

            After Kristina meets Adam she wanted to get to know him better. They started dating after a while and became very close. One day when Kristina was with Adam he persuaded her into doing drugs. She started of by smoking a cigarette, then she smoked weed, and lastly she did crack. For example, “It will be like heaven. Used the blade to chop the chunks fine, draw two crooked lines. Make you want to fly all night. He held the mirror to my face, handed me a sawed-off straw, Make you want to make love to me.” (Hopkins 87)

            As soon as Kristina inhaled the crack it hit her hard: for example, “Fire! Your nose ignites, flames kerosene (and, some say, Drano) laced with ephedrine you want to cry. Powdered demons bite through cartilage and sinuses, take dead aim at your brain, jump inside want to scream.” (Hopkins 90) This shows that Kristina was feeling peer pressure. After that moment Kristina became very addicted to Crack. She began to do more and more and more. The monster inside her came out!