Alcoholism: lessons from population, family and adoption studies.
Recent population, family and adoption studies suggest that the susceptibility to alcoholism is a heterogenous phenomenon. Specific combinations of predisposing genetic factors and environmental stressors appear to interact before alcoholism develops. These studies indicate that the increasing use of alcohol markedly influence the observed inheritance of alcohol abuse. It is concluded that the problems of alcoholism is less a medical than a political problem.
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Umeå, Sweden.
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Cloninger
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von Knorring
D000300:Adoption; D000428:Alcohol Drinking; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000235:genetics* / Q000523:psychology; D004200:Diseases in Twins; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D005828:Genetics, Population; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013548:Sweden