Originally Posted by
freethinking 
What are the flaws? I have time to kill.
I absolutely think how we treat addiction in this country is cultural. What I am saying is, Italy could have the same need for programs like AA - but on a smaller scale. They have lower rates of alcoholism because of what I stated above. You seem to be implying they have lower rates of alcoholism because of how they view alcohol as a culture.
without having to look up statistics like when alcohol was introduced in China..because China has a different culture towards alcohol and a very low abuse rate....i am just trying to figure out the logic here. You are saying that i
in a country like Italy most of the alcoholics of the distant past were so chronic that they never had children to pass on their theoretical alcoholic gene or genes? correct me if I'm off base here...