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Alcoholism: Is It Hereditary?
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The kind of clear-cut model of the genetic sources of alcoholism
perceived by the public and presented in popular tracts does not
accurately reflect the state of knowledge in this area. No persuasive
genetic mechanism has been proposed to account for accumulated data about
alcoholic behavior, soci ....
Middle of essay ....es on the offspring of alcoholics and on the biochemical or
neurological abnormalities they inherit that may lead to pathological
drinking. Or, alternatively, investigations may focus on a configuration
of personality traits centering on impulsiveness and antisocial activity
that can climax in alcoholism or other psychopathology. In the words of
one popular article on the topic, “A decade ago such a theory of inherited
antisocial personality and alcoholism would have been dismissed out of
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