RE: hereditary alcohol
Re: Learned behaviours. While my mother was an admitted alcoholic, as chidren we NEVER saw her drink-she didn't. She knew she had a problem with it and stayed away from it. It wasn't until my early adult life that I saw her drink some at a wedding. She became ill and said she should have known better and I NEVER saw her drink again. As for my Dad, he was good for six beers a YEAR, that would be a big year for him.
kcat
RE: hereditary alcohol
Your Mum sounds like a very strong Lady 🙂
RE: hereditary alcohol
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Your Mum sounds like a very strong Lady 🙂
She really was in so many ways. It probably helped her to deal with her seven children.
Thank You
kcat
RE: hereditary alcohol
I would like to start in saying that while women anecdotally and scientifically proven to be more effected by alcohol, they are also less likely to be alcoholics. Men are the main group of alcoholics, most evidence seems to point to genetics being factor.
Regarding genetics I've read studies saying that some receptors are less receptive to alcohol which induces people to drink more and the other way around saying it’s more receptive.
Anecdotally I’ve seen some people who are less receptive to alcohol and other drugs than others in a way that must exceed nurture. What effect this has on addiction is hard to grasp. People who are addicts often seem to have a past that explains it, however it’s not always the case.
Wiki says alcoholic children are 4x more likely to be alcoholics. That seems to be correct enough. It’s odd to see why some people drink so much and others don’t, when you break down the fact that most people don’t have much control over their actions, it would seem genetics are the primary factor. Getting off topic I always have trouble understanding why some people have so much trouble telling why people they "love" are not nice people, yet they cannot see it. Relating this back to substance abuse, it seems more often a substance abuser can identify with it being a problem yet not stop doing it.
Without delving into the realm of pure speculation, I’d like to finish on the fact it’s that boredom is more common than we seem to acknowledge that leads to this. Which I believe is very genetically driven to result in substance abuse.
The fact that some people can be alcoholics and still have normal jobs while other cant is something that is hard to understand and makes understanding addiction even hard to pin down to a set of causes.