http://www.salon.com/2013/01/05/my_year_of_heroin_and_acne/
Chloe Caldwell writes to the Salon on January 4th over her personal issues with both acne and heroine. Her article functions as a chronological anecdote. The first thing she talks about it's about her decision: whenever she decided to quit doing heroine, she'd do a pedicure. She flashbacks to her high school years and how she didn't have any problems with acne at all, not a single blemish on her face. She continues to tell her story and tells the reader about how, years later, her problems with acne started to occur. Her skin got so bad that all that would make her feel better was heroine. Her best friend K would support her and understand what she was going through, as she went to the same problems herself. The dark, twisted feelings present during this time are mentioned, filling the story with a depressed tone. Her struggle continues. The acne makes her feel horrible, the heroine makes her feel better, heroine makes her skin worse, acne comes up to make her feel even uglier than before, causing her to get more heroine to feel better and so on. Caldwell explains her former life as a depressed cycle. She mentions several occasion involving her family where she decided she'd quit, but couldn't. The final point was when heroine was no longer making her feel better due to her high tolerance; the only option would be to shoot it, and she decided that'd be going too far. She closes the article by saying her skin is gradually getting better and she's now in therapy, gradually feeling better too.
Caldwell's intentions in this article is to discourage the reader to enter into this deppressing and negative world of drugs. She uses her personal experiences to persuade the reader: vivid descriptions of all the hatred and anger she felt toward herself and others and the feeling of never ending suffering are enough to make the reader second doubt the "awesome" effects of drugs. She uses details and appeals strongly to emotion. The author's purpose is achieved as her story conveys all the pain and harshness she went through.
My daughter who is 17 and has cystic acne has been on Ortho ( birth control) for acne for over a Year. We have tried many drugs to help combat her acne. She has stopped Ortho and started dermalmd blemish serum and her face is so clear and is not red anymore either. She is glowing and so I'm I. What a beautiful product with no side affects.
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