On 7/6/2015 4:37 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 06 Jul 2015 16:21:48 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

It's a choice, as is stopping.



Thank you. Not many agree.


Not many who actually know any addicts anyway.

BTW These guys have pretty good credentials
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/addiction/genes/

NIH (long URL)
http://tinyurl.com/nts844q

https://ncadd.org/for-parents-overvi...y-and-genetics

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16251987

The list of credible sources goes on for pages.

To deny this puts you in the same category as those who say being gay
is "just a choice" and you can rehab them out of it.



Don't interject being gay as evidence of your "gene" pass down argument.
There is still no *medical* evidence that drug addiction or alcoholism
is hereditary. They are certainly influenced by nurture but that makes
it a choice.