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I'd be interested in hearing from, say, a biologist or a medical doctor, too. But the article only interviews academics from social work and psychology. I'd li
by ta83742389 11y ago
I'd be interested in hearing from, say, a biologist or a medical doctor, too. But the article only interviews academics from social work and psychology.
I'd like to see some links to research on genetics. The article links only research on environmental factors in addiction.
The article's conclusion may well be right, but it's not convincing if you don't agree with the conclusion before reading it.
- cpncrunch 11y agoYou can't really trust these press releases in general. A quick search turns up this: http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/arh301/3-4.htm http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/arh301/3-4.htm The gist seems to be that although some groups do have different alcohol metabolizing genes, Native Americans don't differ from the general population, so their alcohol problems can't be explained by genetics. If you really want to get to the bottom of it, you'd need to spend an hour or two on google scholar.
- tsotha 11y agoI don't find the genetic argument convincing. There are genes we know of that seem to be related to alcoholism and/or addiction, and native Americans don't seem to have them any more than anyone else. But that doesn't mean there aren't genes related to alcoholism we don't know about.
- cpncrunch 11y agoI think they're just debunking the notion that we have already found the "alcoholism gene" in Native Americans.
- x0x0 11y agogoogle heritable epigenetics and you'll find plenty of papers; there is new research in behavioral epigenetics showing inherited stress hormone changes in descendents of holocaust survivors