2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
Is it true that alcoholism and drug addiction are genetically transmitted? Is it correct to think that everything comes from the family?
These are multifactorial questions. Experts are still arguing about what is more in alcohol or drug addiction, genetics or social factor. It is definitely a scientifically proven fact that there is no gene for alcoholism and drug addiction! Very often, future adoptive parents ask me this question. They are afraid that if the child is from bio-parents who suffered from alcoholism, then the child will also become an alcoholic later. No, fortunately it is not. There is a certain predisposition. You need to know and keep in mind about this. This means that in such a person, whose parents were alcoholics, in the case of regular consumption of alcohol, addiction will form faster. If we talk about what is transmitted in reality, then this is not dependence as such, but the peculiarities of metabolism, which determine the speed at which physical dependence will arise if a person uses it. That is, different people need different time, regularity and quantity for addiction to form. And whether they start experimenting with this is not genetically transmitted, this is due to a large number of social, family and personal factors. Such behaviors, which encourage or interfere with stopping use, are most often found in relatives of people who suffer from these diseases.
Is it true that everything comes from the family? It would not be right to place all responsibility for the child's dependence on the family. A lot depends on the family, but not everything! The main thing is that the family has an "adequate attitude" to alcohol and drugs. The main problem is that the child has a lack of information about what alcohol and drugs are, how they affect a person, the consequences of their use. If the child has no idea about this, there is a need to find out. And each satisfies this need in a different way. Someone asks parents questions, which is rare, someone in the circle of their peers, on the Internet, and someone, unfortunately, learns from their own experience what it is. That is why it is important for the family and parents to explain, to tell, according to the age of the child, that alcoholism and drug addiction are serious diseases that, in fact, cannot be completely cured. The whole organism suffers. Talk about what alcohol and drugs give a person and what he is deprived of if he starts using them.
A person who uses alcohol and drugs believes that this lifts his mood, he becomes more relaxed and liberated. That all this can give him a feeling of freedom, joy, euphoria, etc. After that, it is necessary to show the other side of such "joy". You can see on the Internet photos of people who are sick with it. Together with your child, read the forums of those who suffer from alcoholism or drug addiction. Read what the relatives of these people write (naturally, we are talking about grown-up children!). Talk about what other ways there are to get these feelings, feelings and emotions. For example, dancing, music, or sports can provide the full range of necessary senses.
And of course, our own positive example of the adequate attitude of family members to this issue is very significant.
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