markz

Alcoholism is like diarrhea, it's in the jeans.

IOAA2

Like BLUE?

ScottFromWI

It's also treatable just like the D word!

bunnezjp

That's awesome.

Bunnez

freshstart57

If that were true, if genetics told the whole story, identical twins would always either be alcoholics or not. That is not the case, not by a long shot. If one identical twin is an alcoholic, the odds are only even that the other will become alcoholic too. So, there is likely a genetic component, but big deal. There is also an environmental component, as people who are raised by alcoholics are more likely to become them too. Still others make it all up on their own and become drunks anyway.

When you get right down to it tho, nothing beats pouring booze down your neck till you pass out over and over again, drinking alcoholically in other words, to predict if you will become alcoholic.






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zjw

either way a cork solves both problems

GracieLou

So that means my kids, grand kids and great grand kids are all going to be alcoholics?

zjw

Its probably more likly we will all expierience diarriah at one point in our lives.

GracieLou

Or verbal vomit! :P

DarkDespair

This is not true.

MIRecovery

I can only speak to my experience. My parents were not alcoholic when I or my brother were growing up. But they both died of alcoholism and both my brother and myself are alcoholic. Not to mention a grandmother who quit on her own and a grandfather who was alcoholic.

Not sure what it means or doesn't but interesting none the less

esinger

Most alcoholics are like the jeans after the diarrhea slips. Full of $#!t. Speaking from my own personal experience of coarse.

Bostonsportsfan

From what I've read, it's about 50/50 genetics/environment, habits, etc. I think genetics is part of the equation for some alcoholics, but there's a lot of other variables. I also believe genetics isn't the reason some become alcoholics.

Both sides have a decent argument, but everyone is different.

Bostonsportsfan

My moms side was/is a very heavy drinking family. Both my mom's grand parents were alcoholics and her grandmother drank herself to death. My mom's dad was an alcoholic, along with her and her 2 siblings. My grandmother on my mom's side is the only way that seemed to dodge it. My dad's side of the family doesn't have many drinkers at all, but my dad was/is an alcoholic. I think the combination of my mom's side of the family and both my parents being alcoholics has something to do with my alcoholism, but it's only part of the equation.

MelindaFlowers

My father is an alcoholic but started drinking way later in life in his 50's.

He actually started drinking alcoholically after me.

H2SO4

Hasn't it been studied that an alcoholics brain responds differently to alcohol than someone who can just have a few and be done?

Or has the alcoholics brain just been temporarily rewired by previous abuse? Is this what Campral does? Repair the brain back to normal?