Expert: Jurriaan Plesman, Nutritional Psychotherapist - 12/10/2009

Question
There is a lot of people who use drugs what is the main reason they do it?

Answer
HI Erik,

There are many young people who are depressed and don't know they are depressed. When they come into contact with a drug of addiction, they may suddenly experience a high for the first time - the opposite of how they feel normally without drugs - and so they return to drugs to experience the high again. As they go along the drug become less effective to produce the high, so then they are inclined to increased drugs use even more.

The underlying depression is usually due to hypoglycemia. Most drug addicts are found to be hypoglycemic according to a special test explained at our web site. Most non-hypoglycemic people do not enjoy drugs of addiction. Thus although alcohol is a drug of addiction, most people do not become addicted, but hypoglycemic people may be at risk of becoming addicted to alcohol.

Many young people suffer from depression for exactly the same reason - hypoglycemia. Please read:

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

Depression is a Nutritional Disorder at:
http://www.hypoglycemia.asn.au/articles/depression_disorder.html

and ask for a referral to a Nutritional Doctor, Clinical Nutritionist or a Nutritional Psychologist, if self-help therapy fails.

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Jurriaan Plesman, Nutritional Psychotherapist
Hon. 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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