Addiction to Alcohol/my aunts an alcoholic

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for the past few years my aunts had a drink problem yet this year she has become worse. her kids fathers are fighting for custody and the way shes going she will have no children. She has admitted she has a problem yet she wont let anyone help my nan has refused 2 b a part of her life now. everyone is abandoning her but i love her and cant do that. today she has locked herself in her flat and taken pills along with sum wine no one can get in. i don't want to loose her i love her she doesn't realize how much it affects us all x what can i do? x

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Hi rick,

This must be a difficult situation for you. Alcoholism is a disease like any other disease. The best people to help her ar Nutritional Doctors or a Clinical NUtritionists.

Please read:

“Why Alcoholics drink?” at
http://www.hypoglycemia.asn.au/articles/why_alcoholics_drink.html

“Alcoholism (Addiction) is a Treatable Disease” at:
http://www.hypoglycemia.asn.au/articles/alcoholism_treatable.html

and discuss with a Nutritional Doctor.

I hope I have been of some assistance.

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Jurriaan Plesman, BA(Psych), Post Grad Dip Clin Nutr
Editor: HYPOGLYCEMIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA at
www.hypoglycemia.asn.au
Author: “Getting off the Hook” at
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Jurriaan Plesman, Nutritional Psychotherapist

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I have a degree in Psychology from the Sydney University and a Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Nutrition. I am also the author of “GETTING OFF THE HOOK” which deals with the nutritional and psychological treatment of personality disorders. It is freely available on the internet at Google Book Search. I am interested in the relationship between nutrition and behaviour, and as a Probation ans Parole Officer facilitated groups for offenders, many of whom were alcoholics and drug addicts, sex offenders or compulsive gamblers, as well as the whole gamut of “personality disorders”. I am also the ex-editor of the Hypoglycemic Health Association of Australia Newsletter, a quarterly publication dealing with hypoglycemia and related health problems. Its web site, together with a shortened course of PSYCHOTHERAPY can be visited at: http://www.hypoglycemia.asn.au

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Nutritional Psychotherapy

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The Hypoglycemic Health Association of Australia

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Book: "Getting Off the Hook"freely available on the internet at Google Book Search.
Editor: Hypoglycemic Health Association of Australia
http://www.hypoglycemia.asn.au

Education/Credentials
BA(Psych), Sydney University, Post Grad Dip Clin Nutr (International Academy of Nutrition)

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