Expert: Jurriaan Plesman, Nutritional Psychotherapist - 12/20/2011

Question
Hello. I hope you can answer my question. Can drugs destroy someone's mental health. What I mean is, can it make a person insane. The type of insane people in insane asylum have. When my cousin was in his 20s, he used drugs excessively. I don't know what kinds and this was not in America. Ever since his last drug use, he is not himself. The only way I can describe it is, he is insane. He does not know his name or anybody else's. He does not know anything about himself. All he does is draw graphic pictures and at times defecate anywhere. He barely eats and screams for cigarettes. Can drugs really do this to someone? Can we reverse his mental health? Thank you.

Answer
Hi Caroline,

Drugs can indeed send people into clouds. There are quite a few studies showing that marijuana can trigger schizophrenia in some people.

But the use of drugs is often a sign of an underlying biochemical abnormality and thus as a way of escaping from its its symptoms. Please read:

Drug Addiction is a Nutritional Disorder at:
http://www.hypoglycemia.asn.au/2011/drug-addiction-is-a-nutritional-disorder/
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Jurriaan Plesman, Nutritional Psychotherapist.
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The Hypoglycemic Health Association of Australia.
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