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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 629298" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>I'm disagreeing, that life is just about genetics. That if you happen to be that poor b**** who happens to have 'addiction'-gene and 'lack of resilience'-gene and 'lack of other redeeming characteristics' gene, there is nothing that can happen, that would make it possible for you not to become an addict. And on the other hand: I'm really against an idea, that it doesn't matter, how we treat our children, because it doesn't make any difference. If they just have worthy genes, they will rise from any circumstances and fly and if not, so bad, so sad.</p><p></p><p>If person has a parent with type two diabetes, we are not telling them, that it is no use for them to eat right or exercise, because if they have that gene (and don't have any saving genes to nill the effect) they will get it no matter what. That is simply not true. Neither is that if child happens to have bad mental health genes, he is goner, and nothing parents do, can make any difference.</p><p></p><p>Especially when things like addiction are so much more complex things, than what they are usually portrayed. No one for example still can explain, why vast majority of alcoholics and other substance abusers have spontaneous remission in their condition and why majority of them are able to go back to social drinking, while for some social substance use means relapse to addiction. If it would be just genetic, chronic and progressive disease, that would not be a case.</p><p></p><p>EDIT: My dad was an alcoholic too for decades, though nowadays he is in remission and is a social drinker and my mother was a pothead. I'm neither and I'm fairly sure it is not because some other characteristics, but because of environmental factors e.g. pure dumb luck.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 629298, member: 14557"] I'm disagreeing, that life is just about genetics. That if you happen to be that poor b**** who happens to have 'addiction'-gene and 'lack of resilience'-gene and 'lack of other redeeming characteristics' gene, there is nothing that can happen, that would make it possible for you not to become an addict. And on the other hand: I'm really against an idea, that it doesn't matter, how we treat our children, because it doesn't make any difference. If they just have worthy genes, they will rise from any circumstances and fly and if not, so bad, so sad. If person has a parent with type two diabetes, we are not telling them, that it is no use for them to eat right or exercise, because if they have that gene (and don't have any saving genes to nill the effect) they will get it no matter what. That is simply not true. Neither is that if child happens to have bad mental health genes, he is goner, and nothing parents do, can make any difference. Especially when things like addiction are so much more complex things, than what they are usually portrayed. No one for example still can explain, why vast majority of alcoholics and other substance abusers have spontaneous remission in their condition and why majority of them are able to go back to social drinking, while for some social substance use means relapse to addiction. If it would be just genetic, chronic and progressive disease, that would not be a case. EDIT: My dad was an alcoholic too for decades, though nowadays he is in remission and is a social drinker and my mother was a pothead. I'm neither and I'm fairly sure it is not because some other characteristics, but because of environmental factors e.g. pure dumb luck. [/QUOTE]
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