Expert: Jurriaan Plesman, Nutritional Psychotherapist - 11/8/2007

Question
My father committed suicide on August 4th, 2007 due to depression.  Since then, my brother, who is also depressed and bi-polar, has taken up heroine as his new drug of choice for his healing.  He is 26 and lives w/my mother (and father before suicide).  My mother is facilitating him, because he tells her that he is working on getting clean.  I have known addicts in the past, and know that this is just a front, to keep his habits going.  What is your best advice to get him help, and out of her house, before he brings them both down to homelessness, due to his addiction.  Thank you.

Answer
Hi Angie,

I am so sorry to hear about your father. Yes depression in the family can be devastating.

I see drug addiction as primarily a medical illness, interfering with the production of feel good neurotransmitters. Unfortunately conventional medical practitioners have problems understanding this because they are not trained in Nutritional Medicine.

Please read:

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

as an introduction to the way I help people overcome their addiction.

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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