Alcoholism as a DiseaseIn a recent study to determine whether Alcoholism is a disease 100 subjects with alcoholic parents
were observed and studied. |Of the 100 subjects 18 with alcoholics parents were determined as having alcoholic tendencies. However this leaves 82 who were not.
It’s also the case that by far the larger number of alcoholics have parents who are not themselves alcoholic: so all one can conclude, is that ‘any genetic factor must be but one possible factor among others and that this genetic factor makes a difference in only a minority of cases.’
This result offers strong evidence for some genetic transmission of alcoholism – but Fingarette points out that it still leaves 82 per cent of children with alcoholic parents to grow up without the ‘disease’. ‘Either the relevant genes are usually not transmitted or the genes are transmitted but are usually outweighed by other factors.’
Further discussion on such are not helped by AAs pseudo scientific and mono maniacal jargon, we have a 'disease'.
Source:
[*] Heavy Drinking: The Myth of Alcoholism as a Disease by Herbert Fingarette (University of California Press, 166 pp., £5, 1989, 0 520 06754).
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were observed and studied. |Of the 100 subjects 18 with alcoholics parents were determined as having alcoholic tendencies. However this leaves 82 who were not.
It’s also the case that by far the larger number of alcoholics have parents who are not themselves alcoholic: so all one can conclude, is that ‘any genetic factor must be but one possible factor among others and that this genetic factor makes a difference in only a minority of cases.’
This result offers strong evidence for some genetic transmission of alcoholism – but Fingarette points out that it still leaves 82 per cent of children with alcoholic parents to grow up without the ‘disease’. ‘Either the relevant genes are usually not transmitted or the genes are transmitted but are usually outweighed by other factors.’
Further discussion on such are not helped by AAs pseudo scientific and mono maniacal jargon, we have a 'disease'.
Source:
[*] Heavy Drinking: The Myth of Alcoholism as a Disease by Herbert Fingarette (University of California Press, 166 pp., £5, 1989, 0 520 06754).
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