OT – Alcoholism and Addiction

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[quote=Rustico] The occurrence is extremely high for combination of alcoholics, chain smoking, drug addicts, eating disorders etc. in the same family. We see things like cleft pallate occuring but much less frequently. We even see entire sibling groups as serious alcoholics pretty often. I am not sure but, I don’t think even asthma afflicts whole families nearly as often as these substance problems? What is the explanation?[/quote]

All these issues are very interlinked with socio-psychological stress. In fact, in utero stress can cause genetic/neurological modifications that will make people more susceptible to these kind of issues.

Interesting discussion:

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/2/3/addiction
Dr. Gabor Maté is the staff physician at the Portland Hotel Society, which runs a residence/harm reduction facility and North America’s only supervised safe-injection site in Vancouver, Canada, home to one of the world’s densest areas of drug users. The bestselling author of four books, we speak to Dr. Maté about his latest, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction, which proposes new approaches to treating addiction through an understanding of its biological and socio-economic roots

[NotCranky]

[quote=ocrenter][quote=Rustico]Thanks for sticking with me.That 33% for genetic component alcoholism seems very high to me compared to other poly-genetic multi-factorial disease occurrences in families.[/quote]

I’m just giving you a possible scenario. not saying we are really looking at 33%. I don’t think there’s any true data on that.[/quote]
Thanks, I know it’s just kind of a non-scientific plausibility exercise.

[NotCranky]

[quote=ocrenter][quote=Rustico]Thanks for sticking with me.That 33% for genetic component alcoholism seems very high to me compared to other poly-genetic multi-factorial disease occurrences in families.[/quote]

I’m just giving you a possible scenario. not saying we are really looking at 33%. I don’t think there’s any true data on that.[/quote]
Thanks, I know it’s just kind of a non-scientific plausibility exercise.

[NotCranky]

[quote=ocrenter][quote=Rustico]Thanks for sticking with me.That 33% for genetic component alcoholism seems very high to me compared to other poly-genetic multi-factorial disease occurrences in families.[/quote]

I’m just giving you a possible scenario. not saying we are really looking at 33%. I don’t think there’s any true data on that.[/quote]
Thanks, I know it’s just kind of a non-scientific plausibility exercise.

[NotCranky]

[quote=ocrenter][quote=Rustico]Thanks for sticking with me.That 33% for genetic component alcoholism seems very high to me compared to other poly-genetic multi-factorial disease occurrences in families.[/quote]

I’m just giving you a possible scenario. not saying we are really looking at 33%. I don’t think there’s any true data on that.[/quote]
Thanks, I know it’s just kind of a non-scientific plausibility exercise.

[NotCranky]

[quote=ocrenter][quote=Rustico]Thanks for sticking with me.That 33% for genetic component alcoholism seems very high to me compared to other poly-genetic multi-factorial disease occurrences in families.[/quote]

I’m just giving you a possible scenario. not saying we are really looking at 33%. I don’t think there’s any true data on that.[/quote]
Thanks, I know it’s just kind of a non-scientific plausibility exercise.

[NotCranky]

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/2/3/add…
This is the way I have always thought about it, except I didn’t realize the brain changes, I just thought the lessons of insecurity, fear, distrust, self hate, confusion and inherent poor coping skills and diminished quality of life, were enough to perpetuate “disease”.Maybe I still think that way, and brain “plasticity” is really just a name for doing better as one reduces some of these negatives.

It appears that the the Dr. disavows genetic theories, or there worth to society and individuals anyway. I am prone to the same, even if some connections are proven.

[NotCranky]

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/2/3/add…
This is the way I have always thought about it, except I didn’t realize the brain changes, I just thought the lessons of insecurity, fear, distrust, self hate, confusion and inherent poor coping skills and diminished quality of life, were enough to perpetuate “disease”.Maybe I still think that way, and brain “plasticity” is really just a name for doing better as one reduces some of these negatives.

It appears that the the Dr. disavows genetic theories, or there worth to society and individuals anyway. I am prone to the same, even if some connections are proven.

[NotCranky]

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/2/3/add…
This is the way I have always thought about it, except I didn’t realize the brain changes, I just thought the lessons of insecurity, fear, distrust, self hate, confusion and inherent poor coping skills and diminished quality of life, were enough to perpetuate “disease”.Maybe I still think that way, and brain “plasticity” is really just a name for doing better as one reduces some of these negatives.

It appears that the the Dr. disavows genetic theories, or there worth to society and individuals anyway. I am prone to the same, even if some connections are proven.

[NotCranky]

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/2/3/add…
This is the way I have always thought about it, except I didn’t realize the brain changes, I just thought the lessons of insecurity, fear, distrust, self hate, confusion and inherent poor coping skills and diminished quality of life, were enough to perpetuate “disease”.Maybe I still think that way, and brain “plasticity” is really just a name for doing better as one reduces some of these negatives.

It appears that the the Dr. disavows genetic theories, or there worth to society and individuals anyway. I am prone to the same, even if some connections are proven.

[NotCranky]

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/2/3/add…
This is the way I have always thought about it, except I didn’t realize the brain changes, I just thought the lessons of insecurity, fear, distrust, self hate, confusion and inherent poor coping skills and diminished quality of life, were enough to perpetuate “disease”.Maybe I still think that way, and brain “plasticity” is really just a name for doing better as one reduces some of these negatives.

It appears that the the Dr. disavows genetic theories, or there worth to society and individuals anyway. I am prone to the same, even if some connections are proven.

[NotCranky]

I’ll have to look at your post later CARenter. I am capable of understanding that without reading more. Is the genetic defect for sickle cell and the breast cancer the same class as we are talking about as being claimed for addiction?

[NotCranky]

I’ll have to look at your post later CARenter. I am capable of understanding that without reading more. Is the genetic defect for sickle cell and the breast cancer the same class as we are talking about as being claimed for addiction?

[NotCranky]

I’ll have to look at your post later CARenter. I am capable of understanding that without reading more. Is the genetic defect for sickle cell and the breast cancer the same class as we are talking about as being claimed for addiction?

[NotCranky]

I’ll have to look at your post later CARenter. I am capable of understanding that without reading more. Is the genetic defect for sickle cell and the breast cancer the same class as we are talking about as being claimed for addiction?

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