Expert: Jurriaan Plesman, Nutritional Psychotherapist - 8/24/2007

Question
Please help me, my brother has been doing snorting oxycotin for over a year, he needs help, i don't know where to turn, he wants the help, he called me last night begging for me to help him, he has no insurance, no job and he has a daughter, who has been taken out of the home and is staying with our mother. he needs to go to a thirty day rehab center to get better, he tried to come clean himself and was sick it made him start using again. Please give me some advice

Answer
Hello Melissa,

This is a difficult situation for you. I think you brother should first admit himself to a medically supervised detoxification unit.  Once he is detoxified, he needs treatment for a possible metabolic disorder.  Most addict have been found to be hypoglycemic that cause them to be vulnerable to drug addiction. The best people to help him would be Nutritional Doctors or a Clinical Nutritionist.

Please read:

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

“Treatment of Drug Addiction”
http://www.hypoglycemia.asn.au/articles/treatment_drug_addiction.html

Also read:

Management of Chronic Pain at:
http://www.hypoglycemia.asn.au/articles/pain_management.html

I hope I have been of some assistance.

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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
and discuss with the doctor.