Alcohol Misuse - How Genes and Emotions Play

When life closes its doors at you, the usual next stepas accorded by other experts. Low self-esteem will
is to get into a club or bar. The menu? Beer. And thisget people drinking because they feel sorry for
tends to be abused and people can back it upthemselves. Depression is another factor to consider
reasons that sound credible enough.drinking. But there are also other factors that has
There are two arguable reasons why people drink,nothing to do with a person's emotional state that
the categories are either biological or behavioral.explains why they drink. The cultural background has
Experts claim that DNA dictates people to drink whileto be examined as well, there are societies in the
others say it is more of the psychological andworld that take drinking as a universally accepted
emotional reaction of a person to circumstances.practice.
Men drink more than women. That is a fact butAlcohol abuse motivates the drinker to drink more
women need to achieve less to claim the title of anand be happy. Of course who doesn't want to be
alcoholic. The younger a person drinks the more theyhappy? But the thing is that this urge to be happy is
are predisposed for alcoholism. Many generationscaused by a chemical imbalance in the brain.
believed that having alcoholic in the family willIt is does not matter what causes people to drink
guarantee another and notion goes on. For thosewhether it is biological or it is the norm of the
who believe that genetics have a role, the D2society, conservatives who see it as a waste of time
dopamine receptor is to blame.can argue that a person's free will is still there to say
Psychological and sociological issues are also to blamethe final word.