Addiction to Drugs/What to eat

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Expert: - 5/16/2007


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Hello Jurrian,
I am a recovering heroin addict/alcoholic/benzodiazapine addict (80 days clean today). I have been having big fears just coping with everyday life (incoherent thoughts, massive anxiety, short-term memory loss, immense self-consciousness) sheer terror to say the least. I have been told to drink at least 2 quarts of water which I've just started and was also told to eat healthy foods. What foods or what types of diets would best improve my condition? Thank you for your time.
Omar

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Hi Omar,

Withdrawing from drugs is only the first step in recovery. Your anxiety attacks are due to the underlying biochemical disorder that brought you to use drugs in the first place. They have now re-emerged with a vengeance.

You need to treat the underlying biochemical disorder that afflicts most addicts and that is hypoglycemia. Thus going on a hypoglycemic diet will help you to produce the right hormones and neurotransmitters that can reduce the symptoms of your stress hormones.

Please read:

Drug Addiction is a Nutritional Disorder at:
http://forums.delphiforums.com/clinutrition/messages/?msg=183.1

I hoped the information will help you. You can always ask questions at:

http://forums.delphiforums.com/clinutrition

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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 Psychotherapist

Organizations
The Hypoglycemic Health Association of Australia
http://www.hypoglycemia.asn.au

Publications
GETTING OFF THE HOOK
which is freely available on the internet at Google Book Search. Various articles in Hypoglycemic Health Association Newsletter

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

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