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[Forostar]

Sure, but you have to agree that I do not know all the details of the live(s) involved (which you don't have to provide of course). So like this, it's a bit of a half story for me.

 

[Onhell]

While environment certainly plays a role, you are wrong.

I have known alcoholics who were adopted as babies, raised in non-alcoholic homes, and still turned out to be drunks ... only to find their birth parents after they quit drinking, and learned that the birth parents were drunks.

Or take my own case. My parents are not alcoholic, but their parents (my grandparents) were. Furthermore, I can assure you that excessive drinking is very much frowned upon by my parents, and I was not "raised" to do it. Whatever the combination of genes is, my case (which is not unique) suggests it may be recessive.

I'm not discounting environment, Onhell. But it has long been established as fact that alcoholism is partially genetic and runs in families, regardless of environment.

Cool beans then I'm not wrong, just not fully right

 

[LooseCannon]

Alcohol is a dangerous drug to become addicted to because it is self-propelling.  People who have caffeine addictions (like myself) are still physically dependent on a drug, for instance.  Heavy alcohol consumption causes personal misery which influences the next heavy use of alcohol.  Environment certainly affects a person's choice of addiction - but if you are genetically prone to it, you can end up addicted to just about anything to the point of unhealthiness.