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I started dating my boyfriend 5 months ago and my friends and coworkers suspect he is a heroin addict. I have no experience with drugs and have never met anyone who uses / has used heroin before... This situation is really getting to me as my friends have fallen out with me as i refuse to stop seeing him, but all they have to support their suspitions is the way he behaves... How can i know if he is a heroin addict? How can you tell? Are there any obvious effects that could help me find out if it is true? WHen i asked him he was really shocked and upset i had even considered it to be true... I am going crazy and dont know who to talk to! Please help... Thank you

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There ius no objective way of know whether a person is using drugs. It usually shows up as unusual behviour.

But if indeed he is a drug addict than your happiness is ate stake, because drug addiction is not only a personal illness, it is also a social illness, that will affect other people.

Please read:

“Alcoholism (Addiction) is a Treatable Disease” at:
http://www.hypoglycemia.asn.au/articles/alcoholism_treatable.html

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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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