Addiction Treatment Magazine

The way you make choices about your alcohol consumption and your decisions whether to use marijuana may only be your choices to a degree. Research has shown that heritable factors are a big part of dependency on alcohol and cannabis, which can influence many other areas of life. However, there has been a lack of [...]

While genetics continues to be a key focus into why certain people develop alcoholism while others do not, a new study examines the reality that genes play in a person’s risk for alcoholism. This research highlights genetic pathways and those genes associated with levels of alcohol consumption but not with alcohol dependence in rats and [...]