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I agreed with you through most of my education. However, I have come to see alcohol as a very bad, learned habit to control stress, among other things!Lightkeeper said:I've lived my whole life around alchoholism and have studied it for years. I think it's a disease and once you have this disease, you can't control alcohol usage. You can stop using alcohol, but you can't control the drinking. I have watched friends and family struggle with this for years.
Well I too grew up in an alcohol abusive situation. My father was an alcohol abuser. As a young adult, so was I. But again, genetically speaking, alcohol predisposition cannot be passed through the genes because alcohol is NOT a natural substance. It is manufactured. Therefore it is impossible to be genetically passed on. We can not pass on manufactured substances. All else that leads to too much of anything is passed through environment unless one does have a disease of obsessive-compulsive.fromthe heart said:I feel it's a disease...there are some that have a gene that makes them tend to be addicted easily to things such as alcoholic beverages...They don't dare even drink once a year without risking the NEED to have the next drink. Alcoholism had it's hooks in my family back a ways...My grandfather was addicted. He was a super guy...but if he drank he got drunk...he waqsn't mean or anything like some tend to be but he just couldn't handle the stuff. Since I came from those genes I'm very careful about anything that can be labeled as addictive. I do believe for some it is illness, others can do fine with it. I guess it's like anything else...sometimes your body just has it's ills.
I don't see anything wrong with a glass of wine with dinner, but to drink until you get a buzz for me is wrong.
I'm sorry but I must disagree with that.:tsk: ..the predisposition to it does come from a gene that can run in families.DrM said:Well I too grew up in an alcohol abusive situation. My father was an alcohol abuser. As a young adult, so was I. But again, genetically speaking, alcohol predisposition cannot be passed through the genes because alcohol is NOT a natural substance. It is manufactured. Therefore it is impossible to be genetically passed on. We can not pass on manufactured substances. All else that leads to too much of anything is passed through environment unless one does have a disease of obsessive-compulsive.
I think if you do some serious family research you will find that there were other members of your father's family that had a problem with alcohol. Sometimes it's difficult to find the abusers because there is so much denial about the problem, particularly if there are some functioning alcoholics. The is a genetic predisposition to alcohol. Some bodies cannot tolerate the substance. You can assume that you probably have this condition. It is better not to deny it.DrM said:Well I too grew up in an alcohol abusive situation. My father was an alcohol abuser. As a young adult, so was I. But again, genetically speaking, alcohol predisposition cannot be passed through the genes because alcohol is NOT a natural substance. It is manufactured. Therefore it is impossible to be genetically passed on. We can not pass on manufactured substances. All else that leads to too much of anything is passed through environment unless one does have a disease of obsessive-compulsive.
Alcoholism runs in my step-father's family. All three of his siblings and both of his parents were alcoholics. He was well on his way when he was diagnosed with diabetes and the doc told him to give up drinking or plan on sticking himself with a needle for the rest of his life. He gave up drinking that day. Now he drinks an occasional glass of wine, but rarely.DrM said:This is an interesting question and I hope you will answer the poll and give an explanation for your answer.
I hope they, whomever they are, look at the scriptures that say not to indulge in too much alcohol becauseNetDoc said:I'm gonna have to face it, I'm addicted to love!
I talked about my father's alcohol induced death, so you probably can guess my stand on alcoholics. It's time for some TOUGH love!
But there is nothing inherently wrong with alcohol though many will erroneously use Bible scriptures to assert as such.