Expert: Jurriaan Plesman, Nutritional Psychotherapist - 1/27/2006

Question
I have an interesting question for you, I’m not sure if this is your department or not but I’d be most grateful if you could help me.
I’m a non-alcoholic person and my girl-friend who knows this wanted to do the same and she only casually drank before we met, after some time we moved in together and then after about 4 months she started going out to “see friends� and telling me she will be gone for just a few minutes (we lived near her sisters house) and she would tell me she was going to see her sister, so she would leave and most the time she would show up the next day and make up some wild excuse and try her best to make it seem realistic. She’s a good liar an I really hate liars though, so when she left one night I decided to go with my friends to my other friends birthday party, when I got back, she came back a short time latter and she stumbled around the yard like she was drunk, then she started moving like a drunk and well.. she was acting very drunk and there is no doubt that she was drunk off something, I asked her what she had been drinking and she told me she overdosed on valium the sleeping pill, she told me she overdosed because of me, then I kept telling her she was lying and that she is clearly drunk, and I was asking her over and over who gave her alcohol and where she was, then she told me my friends gave it to her, but I knew that was a lie because I was with all my friends except one who had left earlier, so I went to her sister yelled at her whether she did it or not it would send a message to my girl when she goes back, and then I talked to my friend who simply replied with “she’s playing you� when I got back things were worse, and she threw up what looked to be alcohol, and every single time I ask her even to this day, she swears that god should kill her if she’s lying, that she took valium and was not drunk… my question, do you have any honest idea based on educational or personal experience that valium can make you act drunk.
can valium make you act drunk?
Thank you so much for your time.
-Billy


Answer
Hello Bill,
I believe you have brought up the question before.

If your partner has a drinking problem then it is up to her to do something about it. There is not much anybody else can do, if the partner does not want to help herself.

We have a article called:

Alcoholism is a Treatable Disease at:
http://www.hypoglycemia.asn.au/articles/alcoholism_treatable.html

that might help to explain addiction.

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