Originally Posted by
MTWildflower 
This is outta nowhere, but has anyone thought of alcoholism as a birth defect?
I have a switch somewhere in my brain that apparently doesn't work properly. In the physical sense, it's like someone who has a cleft lip or gluten intolerance. And birth defect isn't quite the right word, but you see what I'm getting at.
Yup!
There's a spot in the upper part of my brainstem that just pumps out dopamine at the thought of alcohol, and then my limbic system tries to poke and prod the rest of my brain into rationalizing how easy it would be to have "just one drink".
Or...at least that's how I see it...
Social drinker's brains just don't light up like a Christmas tree like mine does with booze.
Murray