Expert: Jurriaan Plesman, Nutritional Psychotherapist - 2/24/2008

Question
QUESTION: i am at my wits end i knew my daughter was taking drugs but didn't face the reality of it untill now my daughter has a two and half year old son who is lovely
i have just found out she takes heroin 3 times a month apparently smoking it she also has just had her son taken off her and put into foster care which is breaking my heart she has been told the only way she will get him back is to be clean and lose the boyfriend
she won't lose the boyfriend
i don't know anything about drugs so my question is
is she an addict and if she does get clean will she get her son back

ANSWER: Dear suzanne,

I am amazed that the authorities have not asked you to look after your grandson. Perhaps you should enquire about this.

It seems to me that your daughter is addicted to drugs and this may have been a factor for authorities placing the child in foster care.

Drug addiction is difficult to treat by conventional means. I use a combination of nutrition and psychotherapy to help drug addicts overcome their addiction. It has been explained in my book "Getting off the Hook", freely available on the internet.

If you want to help your daughter, it is best to understand why some people become addicted and others not. Your daughter appears to be suffering from a pre-existing underlying biochemical disorder that is responsible for her addiction.

Most addicts are found to be hypoglycemic, and thus the first step is to go on a hypoglycemic diet.

Please read:

Drug Addiction is a Nutritional Disorder at:
http://www.hypoglycemia.asn.au/articles/drug_addictions_nutritional_disorder.htm

and related articles.

_______________________________________________
Jurriaan Plesman BA (Psych) Post Grad Dip Clin Nutr
Editor of
The Hypoglycemic Health Association of Australia.
www.hypoglycemia.asn.au
Author of "Getting off the Hook"
Freely available at Google Book Search



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QUESTION: many thanks for getting back to me
i was asked of course to look after my grandchild and be the foster carer but i work full time and i love my job so i now feel guilty for not giving up my job i went last week to visit my grandson in a secure place for two hours with my daughter and asked her if she was still with her boyfriend the answer was yes
the next day when she came to the house for us to visit my grandchild i again asked her if she was with the boyfriend the answer was yes so i refused to go thinking it might make her see sence but all i got was a mouthfull and now she won't speak to me
the following day she never turned up to see her son which i can't get my head around
am i being that naieve and is this drug so powerfull it stops you loving everything that loves you

Answer
Dear suzanne,

Your final question: "am i being that naieve and is this drug so powerfull it stops you loving everything that loves you" has to be answered in the affirmative.

Drug addiction is physiological disease and needs to be treated physiologically first, then  followed by psychotherapy. Drug addicts are beyond their will power and logical thinking. Drugs come first!!

If staying with her boyfriend - who apparently is also addicted - is important to your daughter, why not suggest to them that they both go into therapy?

The trouble is that conventional therapy for drug addiction has a low success rate because most drug therapists are not aware of the biochmeical aspects of drug addiction.

Ask you daughter AND her boyfriend to look at:

Drug Addiction is Nutritional Disorder at:
http://www.hypoglycemia.asn.au/articles/drug_addictions_nutritional_disorder.htm

or ask them to be referred to a nutritionally oriented psychotherapist.

_______________________________________________
Jurriaan Plesman BA (Psych) Post Grad Dip Clin Nutr
Editor of
The Hypoglycemic Health Association of Australia.
www.hypoglycemia.asn.au
Author of "Getting off the Hook"
Freely available at Google Book Search