Alcoholism: lessons from population, family and adoption studies
Bohman, M.; Sigvardsson, S.; Cloninger, R.; von Knorring, A.L.
Alcohol and Alcoholism . Suppl 1: 55-60
1987
ISSN/ISBN: 1358-6173 PMID: 3426732 Document Number: 305379
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.