Originally Posted by
sailorjohn 
Do you really believe that you can 'train' yourself into alcoholism?
There are some stickies here on the subject, you may/may not be aware of the studies done on adopted identical twins from alcoholic genetic backgrounds raised in non-alcoholic households?
Can you guess how these guys turned out?
Yes I do believe that.
I know that there are genetic predispositions, or more genetically susceptible people. I think this is widely accepted, especially with the extreme vulnerability of say, Native Americans. We're all human though, and I believe we all have the vulnerability, just that some are more vulnerable.
I believe that anybody who pounds alcohol long enough will become mired in the alcoholic fog of thinking, learn to crave, learn to seek alcohol to escape or distort reality. 6 years into pounding alcohol, I too came to crave, to think alcoholically (that the rules didn't apply to me).
I think I narrowly dodged a bullet when I stopped joining the party.