Blues Man
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Both my parents were addicts and yet I have no trouble with booze or drugs.It's called a genetic predisposition. The language used in the link also follows the "disease" theory. If your parents, grandparents, etc. are alcoholics/addicts then you would be at a higher risk to become the same. Men are not excluded. In fact, the substance abuse by the father leading up to the time of conception also impacts the baby. Genetics and alcoholismNo one becomes an instant alcoholic it takes a long time of daily heavy drinking to become addictedIt is not a disease.
It takes commitment to become addicted to alcohol.
In my experience ( my mother was an addict and it killed her) most addicts are nothing but selfish and narcissistic and when the world which they believe should be all about them doesn't live up to their expectations they drink or smoke or shoot up.
I grew up near two kids who were in foster care. Their mother was an alcoholic. The foster family had a son who was the same age. The kids lived with the foster family from the time they were five till they were adults.
The kids were raised the same as their natural son. When they turned 18 both kids became instant alcoholics. They could not control themselves. The natural son had no problem drinking
I think their mothers heavy drinking while they were in the womb subjected them to massive doses of alcohol. They were born alcoholics
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It takes a long time to get addicted to anything
Becoming an alcoholic takes commitment
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Were you a drug baby or did the addiction come later on down the road?
This is FAS
Fetal alcohol syndrome - Symptoms and causes
Basics about FASDs
You can have a mom that sporadically drank or drank and didn't know they were pregnant and the screening at the time of birth comes out fine and FAS is not diagnosed. At least not right off the bat.
It doesn't take that long to get addicted to heroin, meth, crack, fentanyl. At all. And if you have a newborn that is going through withdrawals from name your drug they are born addicts.
It's a higher risk. You can have five siblings born to drug addicts and 3 of them have substance abuse issues of their own and two don't have any issues. Why? Dunno. I like to call it......don't need to be hit by a mac truck to know it hurts theory.
It takes repeated use over a period of time to become physically addicted to any drug
No one is an addict after one use.
Addiction is a behavioral issue because it doesn't manifest if one does not engage in the behavior of repeated drug use
Marc Lewis: the neuroscientist who believes addiction is not a disease