Does your Family have a history of Drug/Alcohol abuse?

Genetics. People with alcohol and drug abuse problems often have a family history of substance abuse. Studies indicate that when this genetic predisposition for abuse is combined with environmental factors, the person is more likely to develop a substance abuse problem.

Temperament and personality. Rebelliousness, resistance to authority, feelings of failure, and failure to form close relationships are factors that may lead a teen to seek the effects of alcohol or drugs.

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I've noticed that a lot of my relatives were alcoholics and drug abusers. Which is a factor in my drinking and pot intake.

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Wather you believe it's in your blood or not. Do you have anyone in your family that abused drugs and alcohol?

My brother is kind of a pothead alcoholic, he's three years older than me. Otherwise, not really.

i come from a long line of alcoholics....

Well that I know of a few people in my family including one of my uncles was heavy on weed, and is now locked up in a mental home dont know if there is any connection but that might of triggered it off.

almost everyone in my fathers side of the family is addicted or has a history of tobacco addiction.

alcoholism is prevalent too, but not as much. addiction to other drugs has happened but only a couple times.

Well, my mother, father, sister, and two brothers all smoke, but none of them are heavy smokers. They all drink too, but not regularly. I have alcoholics on my mothers side, and many of them died due to the drink. I however, don't smoke or drink regularly either.

I don't know what conclusions you can pull from that, but oh well....kinda high and rambling

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Originally Posted by slipknotpsycho

i come from a long line of alcoholics....

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me to thats why i dont drink

alcohol. my dad is an alcoholic. he drinks enough to get me incredibly fucked up every night and all it does is make him drowsy. its sad really

I come from a long line of rigid, ascetic, abstinent mormonism. I even served an LDS mission for 2 years, which were the greatest 2 years for me to date. Except it wasn't the religion that made it great, it was being exposed to various ideologies, and seeing how everyone else views life and eternity. Now I see mormonism as pretty goofy, but there is some that holds true, like making yourself a god over your own earthly dominion, trying to be LIKE jesus rather than using jesus only as a care-giver, family values, etc.

didn't mean to wax religious. I wonder if my heritage of abstinence in some way relates to my extreme resistance levels to intoxicants. weed or alcohol, I maintain a fair amount of sobriety while consuming either. reason would suggest that a family history of substance abuse is more likely to desensitize you to inebriation, though

yep. the apple doesn't fall far from the tree...

most of both of my families have strong addictions to most drugs.
it's pretty scary but I have to learn to control it..
also, i have to be ready for my child to go through it..

uh huh, madness runs in the family.

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Originally Posted by slipknotpsycho

i come from a long line of alcoholics....

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i do too
and i sure drink a hell of a lot of alchohol.

I as well come from a long, looooongline of drinkers, and I fell into it as well. I was a daily drinker for a good 3 or 4 years until my stomach just couldn't take booze anymore. I quit for 3 years, not one drink.

I still have the ocassional beer, but hard stuff I don't touch at all.

I don't blame it on genetics, I blame it on past traumatic experiences I went through and my mental illness. I was diagnosed with a severe bi-polar disorder at age 16. High school was rough on me and I eventually got kicked out. Because of my mental illness, I had paranoia, irrational thinking patterns, and a bad temper. Little things set me off and after 2 semesters of getting picked on daily, I had a blackout and beat a kid bloody and bruised. I got kicked out at age 16.

The only way I could control my illness was with alcohol, so that's why I started drinking. It's theonly way I could cope.

Then I got jumped by 3 guys a few years later and that made my anger even worse, so that's when I started drinking everyday.

I drank to be happy. I wasn't happy due to being bi-polar and the pills weren't working. Thankfully, after 8 years of diff. kinds od meds, I have found something that works great. Now I drink on occasion. If I do, it's only a few beers. :)