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I use drugs I would say recreationally?... I don't have an addictive personality...but I have been using heroin(Intravenously)for a little more then a year... I only use three-five times a month (max.) and spend about 40 dollars each time I use..I never have paun or sold anything to get heroin... and when I don't have money I don't "obess" about getting the drug or using... and I have never withdrew from the drug ... would you say I am an addict? I realize heroin is a serious drug- and there aren't many "recreational" users but is it possible that I could be one?  

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Hello Cori,

I have never heard of anybody using heroin and saying they are not addicted.

You need to ask yourself why you need to take heroin as a form of recreation.

Most have heroin users have a hypoglycemic condition  that makes them enjoy drugs, because without it they would be depressed.

Please investigate the connection between addiction and hypoglycemia and it is up to you to make decisions as to whether to continue taking heroin.

Jurriaan Plesman, BA (Psych) Post Grad Dip Clin Nutr
For more articles see
http://www.hypoglycemia.asn.au

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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

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

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

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

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