Can some one explain the article I read today on how person’s genes play apart with addiction?
How some genes can cause more addiction than other genes.
I think what he was trying to say is they don’t like their life or some thing not going good with their life so they turn to drugs.
Other people that are revolutionaries changing life and social norms to different life and social norms like hippies, punks, street gutter punks, bikers and other social groups you find in urban center of city that reject social norms on how people dress, look, social norms and behavior. Some of this rejects of social norms and very rebellious people.
Where on A&E network intervention they where rapped, abused, neglected or not cared for when they where a child. Some could be drama picks for entertainment for more drama reality TV.
So A&E network intervention is not a substituted for proper learning.
Yea we have those addicts like the once on A&E network intervention that where rapped, abused, neglected or not cared for or had a traumatic experience being a kid.
Other groups for some strange reason like medical illness like schizophrenia, ADHD, Mania or Bipolar so on. That they still cannot explain why lot people with medical illness do drugs. May be how the brain is with people with medical illness and by doing drugs it some how helps with what brain is after.
Other group of people above the revolutionaries people like the hippies, punks, street gutter punks so on.
Not sure what you are confused about with the gene thing.
Genes code for all sorts of things. There is one SNP/gene mutation I am aware of that makes it around 4x as likely you will become addicted to opiates.
It’s very easy to see how alcoholism runs in families. I have virtually no will power. I know a decent number of alcoholics - some have tried VERY hard.
I like to get drunk every once and a while, but I just have no desire to do this on a daily basis and neither does anyone in my family. This has nothing to do with morals or the way we were brought up.
Just as some genes code for a different ratio of slow twitch/fast twitch muscle fibers and make it x times more likely you’ll be good at sport X - there are genes that code for stuff in your brain system that make it so your reward system (or whatever - I’m not sure the EXACT mechanism is known)
Most of the genetic variations don’t guarantee one thing or the other - they just make it more or less likely.
Addiction is extremely complex and there is no one thing that causes someone to be an addict.
More and more is being learned all the time. Remember those videos showing rats triggering cocaine buttons til they died? Well someone realized that those rats were just in a cage with food cocaine and water - when they redid the study with lots of cool tthings for the rats to do ‘Rat Park’ as they called it - most/all (don’t remember) didn’t do this.
I’m going to gently correct you on the physical pain remark, Wesley Clark, because “opiates are teh EVIL” have been in the news so much this week.
If someone is in physical pain and receives appropriate treatment with opiates/opioids, including oversight, they actually have a fairly low chance of becoming addicted. I’ve read studies that say that around 3% of people demonstrate addictive behaviors (not necessarily full-on addiction) after a year of physician-prescribed opiate medications. That’s because most people in physical pain just want the pain to stop, not to get high. So 97% of patients are not demonstrating addictive behaviors.
Now it’s possible that people with psychological issues or family histories of addiction will become addicted. My pain management team does psychological screening and asks specific questions to find those patients they may need to keep a closer watch on.
I’ve taken the same dose of opioids for about 8 years now. It’s a low dose, and I am allowed to adjust it up and down a specific amount as needed. So if my pain level is low, I take half or a quarter of the dose. If it’s high, I can take an additional half-dose. I don’t get high, and never have. I actually slightly under-medicate, and use other techniques to handle other pain.
This is a fascinating comment, RivkahChaya. I have a similar response to pain medications as you do – I don’t get high. And I have a weirdly high tolerance to other drugs (such as Valium, nitrous oxide, and drugs used to relax ppl before surgery). My mother’s family is German, and about half of the German part of the family are Jewish.
Both of my parents smoked heavily.
My father was an abusive alcoholic.
Of the 4 kids, I am the only one to get hooked on either.
And I got hooked on both.
The nicotine patch was able to get me off smoking.
I was in a hospital for other reasons and decided to, for once, NOT do the AMA (sign yourself out) routine and go home and drink.
I did not have any dramatic symptoms, but was given Ativan for the edge.
I am also the one with the highest career path. Way past 2 of siblings and 1.7 x second-highest.
But yeah, put me in the “Enjoyed the Hell out of them” column.
New Heroin Vaccine Helps Users Quit by Blocking its Effects
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Otherwise I would of posted the article from other web source than futurism.com
You can give up sex, but I don’t see why it is harmful.
You cannot give up food, but what you can do is give up eating between meals. I know because I did it and after a few weeks, I no longer craved to eat between meals. That and a portion control diet and I lost almost nearly a third of my weight and have stabilized there. BMI went from 39 to 27 and hasn’t changed in five years or so.
Stopping smoking was the hardest thing I ever did. Drinking was never a problem since alcohol just makes me sleepy and doesn’t feel good at all. I had an uncle who died an alcoholic though. In his case he was responsible, as a nine year old, for an accident that killed his younger sister and he just never got over it. No one else in either of my parents’ family ever drank much at all. As Rivkah Chaya suggested, excess drinking is not usually a problem in Ashkenazi families and AFAIK, my whole extended family is from eastern Europe including Russia.
Probably more complex than what the article claims. That is no biological markers found to cause addiction.
Just like there is no biological markers to cause phobia, anxiety, obsessive compulsive or ADHD. Even social deviant, antisocial personality disorder or personality disorder have no biological markers.
Like most mental illnesses is base on symptoms only as there no blood work or CT scan or MRI or some other test to say you have this illnesses.
There no blood work, CT scan, MRI scan or any test for ADHD, phobia, anxiety, obsessive compulsive, social deviant, antisocial personality disorder, alcoholism, addiction, drug addiction, sex addiction personality disorder. All this is base on symptoms and symptoms only as to diagnose.
There also debate what should be part of the DSM or not.
And if it is true that everyone would have a some kind of mental illnesses.
Brain chemistry prior to exposure to drugs might play a role. I’ll give an example of a non-addictive drug.
Many old cold medicines made some customers drowsy. These medicines were hydrophobic, and could easily cross the blood-brain barrier. Some people have enzymes in their blood-brain barriers that would intercept the medicines and sweep them away; these people wouldn’t get drowsy. Others didn’t have these enzymes and got drowsy. Newer cold medicines are hydrophilic and cannot cross the blood-brain barrier.
If some people have enzymes that “protect” their brains from, say, heroin, they might run a lower risk of addiction to heroin (since the effective dosage to the brain is less, so less modification of the brain). Note that these enzymes do not protect them from other health effects of heroin (no lesser risk of overdosing). Furthermore the enzymes are not “perfect”; a “resistant” person taking a lot of heroin could still suffer from addiction.
Genetic differences expressed in other parts of the body can also play a role, although the impact on addiction might be much less. Some people produce a lot more alcohol dehydrogenase than others, and some people are even “allergic” to alcohol. I’m not sure if that has any direct impact on addiction, although a less resistant person might drink less just to avoid allergy symptoms.
I apologize if this has already been covered. I skimmed over all of the posts - there was a lot to read.
I’ve never smoked anything nor have I ever used any illegal drugs. I can take or leave alcohol. A cold beer on a hot summer’s day is good, but I rarely imbibe.
My question is if I started drinking heavily would I eventually become addicted? Would I be able to just stop or would my body crave the alcohol? In other words, could anyone/everyone become either a drug addict or alcoholic just by using heavily?
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