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Old 10-19-2017, 06:52 AM
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Originally Posted by dwtbd View Post
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Inside or outside the context of AVRT , what is 'alcoholism' ? Is there an 'ism' separate from addiction ? Or chemical dependency?

I've talked about this in another thread but I don't believe in an ISM and I don't believe that addiction is different based on what substance is being abused. When I talk about a genetic factor I'm talking about how alcohol is metabolized. I never drank right, I could always drink way more than most people, long before I considered myself addicted, it was like that from the start for me. There's something to that I think. What about Asian people? For the most part they can't handle much alcohol. Isn't that because of genetics? Some peoples bodies react different to alcohol. I'm not saying that predetermines whether or not they will become alcohol dependent, there's a whole lot of free will and social conditioning that comes into play too, but I would wager that for a lot of us on here we didn't drink "normal" right from the beginning.
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