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Do you think addictions are hereditary?

melanie2

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My parents drank..i drink..my father smoked...i smoke..my mother was addicted to prescription drugs..well that's one addiction i do not have..in fact even during the worst part of my depression, i counted out the xanax, and only took them as prescribed..then i didn't need them after a bit..but for some addictions..do you think they are hereditary? and damn i do not want to go insane like my mother did..
 
Well i know my dad was a real drinker thats what my mom says i don't know him so thats why i try to watch drinking so i don't get carried away and she tole me that it can be passed down.
 
Wow - nature vs nurture debate.

I think your parents will set patterns of what you will grow up to consider acceptable behaviour. That would make it OK to drink or smoke if they did. In my particular case both parents smoked and drank but me and my brother only drink.

Also we seem to have a serious drunk at each family node for the genereations I have info for (me for mine and my mum for hers). I keep watching my brother's kids to see if they follow the pattern but neither has shown a trend so far.

I also think that earlier generations will have a long term affect by possibly passing down resistance or preference to these substances. This is pure speculation on my part but I feel supported by a species of sheep in Scotland who were forced to radically change their diet in a very short space of time (evoloutionarily speaking).
 
I have the answer from the doctor who treated me for my addiction to alcohol. My grandparents were very hard drinkers (it killed them both at an early age) and that was passed to me in my genes. The doc told me that it won't make u an addict just because you carry the genes but needed to be coupled with something else. For me it was depression that really activated the gene in me and made it very easy to become an addict. There was no way to fix the gene but once the depression was treated, the desire to drink myself into a coma was much less and easier to deal with.
 
I'm not quite ready to jump on the "it's in the family" bandwagon. Although there is certainly evidence pointing that way, and there probably is something to it on some level. From my point of view, I don't think it's as much "genetic" as "environmental".

There are cases where heredity has nothing to do with it at all. It's no big secret that I have had my share of addictions/appetites, for a number of reasons FAR to large to go into here. However, it doesn't really run in my family much to speak of. In fact, it's quite the opposite. My grandmother smoked for 52 years...one day just "decided" she didn't want to smoke anymore. She never had another, went through maybe one freakin' day of being a little edgy, and that was that. My mom did the same thing. No real alcoholism to speak of in my family, or drug addiction. Yeah, a couple people here and there...around the general population average. But no "traits" of it.

So, I do believe that environment might be more to blame than a gene. Your parents drank a lot, theirs did...well, I'm pretty sure that imprints on a young impressionable mind. You grow up in a certain "way of life". It can lead to addictions, but doesn't have to be because of it directly. Like I said, no one in my family had any substance issues, but I still grew up with basically enough lunatics, headcases and assholes to drive one into an abyss of his own comfy blankets. 😉
 
Many fall to the bottle and whatever else and often don't recover because it's a crutch to aid in escaping reality. What it ultimately comes down to is how you perceive reality and the options available to you. This is largely as Dave said, shaped by the environment you grew up - but how things effect you is up to you. The statistics of recovery may seem bleak, but a strong mind and strong will are all you need. Humans are resilient like that.
 
Well i'll tell you...when my mom was told she needed help getting off xanax and alcohol..she quit both just like that..which wasn't a wise move as it turned out..but she did quit..then she went nutsville after a few things happened..

And dad..after he was diagnosed with cancer..he never touched another drop..
 
See, I figure i'll go the other route. If I ever get diagnosed with malignant cancer, I'll start smoking and drinking with abandon.

Also, as an added point to the whole family debate: I had a good friend when I lived in Georgia who wouldn't touch a drop of booze, due to his father's having wrecked his life on it. Granted, he indulged heavily in the weed...
 
Yeah, I don't drink either. Now weed? Uh....yeah, a bit. 😉
 
I don't drink, smoke or do drugs, but I think my tickling addiction is obsessive!
 
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