According to a recent Medical News Today article, leading researchers on alcohol from both Canada and the U.S. have come together to discuss the latest discoveries at a full day conference that took place November 18th at Loyola University in Chicago.
People with "addictive personalities" may have qualities that could also make them leaders, according to Dr. David Linden, a professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and an expert on substance abuse.
Families inherit hundreds of characteristics through the generations, and alcoholism is among the most deadly of those traits and genetic tendencies. Around 10 percent of people in the U.S. are believed to suffer from alcoholism over the course of their lifetime, and thousands will die – even though alcoholism itself is not often listed as [...]
I inherited this from my family. I was born to be a junkie like my old man and his father before him.
Two new studies found differences in the way females and males use drugs.
There are a number of things that genetics can be used to determine, including eye color, hair color, health and even your sensitivity to the drinking habits of others. According to a recent Science Daily release, genetics can play a role in determining the extent to which an individual is influenced by social drinking cues.
The way you make choices about your alcohol consumption and your decisions whether to use marijuana may only be your choices to a degree. Research has shown that heritable factors are a big part of dependency on alcohol and cannabis, which can influence many other areas of life. However, there has been a lack of [...]
While genetics continues to be a key focus into why certain people develop alcoholism while others do not, a new study examines the reality that genes play in a person’s risk for alcoholism. This research highlights genetic pathways and those genes associated with levels of alcohol consumption but not with alcohol dependence in rats and [...]
