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An interview with Dr. Stanton Peele. Produced and directed by Patrick and Andrea Bergin. Copyright First Vision Productions 2003.
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This video a joke?
I blame it on the A-AAA-A-ALCOHOL !
@Mitetris .. botox lol
If you hide drinks, or hide frequency of use in anyway you are an alcoholic
They didn’t even mention the really fun facts like Delerium and liver cancer and whatnot..
@Mitetris get a chilled beer
i CAN’T STOP SWEATING, but I am not an alcoholic what to do?
is she even a real docter? she is hot anyway!
Other signs of abuse can be; “regularly being intoxicated”
great wisdom here ha ha ha
Alcohol changes my behavior to be mean and angry. No more alcohol for me in a long time. I believe drinking once in a while is okay in the future, but not too much. :)
@CREXKILLS haahahha
drink beer it feels good if it kills you at least you had fun drinkin your life. live for the beer cause it’s what makes the world go round and round. say yes to trhe bottle!
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I would miss class on a regular basis as long as I was having unprotected sex
It affects one’s memory, that’s been proven. I know someone that smoked some pot in the morning, drove their car later that evening. They got pulled over for having some third party racing crap on their car, the officer smelled pot, gave the guy a drug test, it was inactive, but still present in his system and he got a DUI and couldn’t get it knocked down to a wet reckless. Lesson learned. It is still illegal and it is still a drug. Have a nice day.
Kills brain cells? How bout some sources. And just because it can still be detected in your system doesn’t mean it’s still having phychoactiive effects….
Wrong. Marijuana has HEALED people with seizures/seizure disorders.
Marijuana doesn’t do anything to actually heal anyone. All it does is more of a pain killer or a way to create a craving for food. For extreme medical conditions like AIDS patients/cancer patients that are bed ridden, I don’t see much of a problem. However, for recreational usage it affects one’s memory, long term affects does create psychotic behavior and it stays in the system for a long time. Plus, it is STILL illegal to drive under the influence, it’s still forbidden in most companies.
i agree that the natural way is always better. but of all drugs that i have/have seen consumed in my experience here on earth, i have to say that marijuana shows the least amount of evidence of brain damage. under certain conditions and based on the purity of your product, its actually a safer performance enhancing drug than caffeine or nicotine. alcohol and cocaine although opposite in effect are almost the same in adverse effects on health. weed shows no similarities to those hard drugs.
Damn.. if being a alcholic is the ONLY way to have sex with beautiful woman. LET ME BE!
my dad was a alcoholic for 30 years yes he’s still here thank god…..i started drinking when i was 16 now im 22 i mean everyday or every other 4 underage drinking charges before i was 21 FUCK i wish i could quit but my dad..says a acoholic wont say there a alcoholic
Meditate and some relaxtion excersises, there are no magic pills. You can take some epicac, which will make you throw up exessively, but that’s no fun.
Just learn to drink water, organic juices, teas (no caffinated) which is pretty much all you can do about it.
You have a drinking problem. Learn to stop or go seek some counseling. 3 to 5 drinks everyday is pretty much full blown alcoholism by most experts standards. If you don’t stop, it will get worse and according to AA, it is just a matter of time before the alcohol puts you in jail, the hospital or the morgue. There are no shortcuts. Either stop drinking of the it will eventually kill you one way or another.
Weed is also a drug that destroys brain cells and one can still get a DUI from having it in their system while driving and it takes a long time to remove it from their body.
One shouldn’t have to consume a drug to be happy and healthy. Drugs/alcohol are commonly used to fight stress, when the actual drug/alcohol they are consuming adds to the stress. Go meditate, learn how to relax naturally.
Personally, it is just at what level of abuse. If you don’t want to get addicted to it, just don’t drink in the first place. Even the smallest amount can affect one’s judgement, memory, and ability to decide whom to associate with.
It destroys every cell and it is one of leading causes of breast cancer, other forms of cancer, kidney disease, liver disease, digestive distorders, affects the immune system and can even cause heart problems.
@Hammersley1967 may be seen as a success individually, he may very well be contributing to the demise of his own species. Another thing is that the wealthy classes are producing less children, so in time they will be overrun by the poorer classes. The wealthy classes are better at making money and earning a living in the modern world, so I guess in that sense they are better adapted modern social relations. I do think you are right, though, there is an element of perception in alcoholism.
@Hammersley1967 “Peele says alcoholism is less prevalent in wealthy classes. Are they the gene pool better adapted to modern social relations?” Well, I have seen a lot of people who have money that are alcoholics. The rehab centers are full of people who have money or who have insurance, which in American nowadays is becoming a luxury, especially for chemical dependency. As Krisnamurti said, ” It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” While an individual
@Hammersley1967 The modern world really crushes the old world metaphysics; yet people cling to it because that’s what they have been taught. European culture is totally at odds with the Native American culture, which has been all but wiped out. So I guess it would stand to reason they would look for something to alter reality. There are lot of caucasians who feel the same way, and again that is why a lot of alcoholics and addicts turn to God or spirituality. That personally hasn’t worked for me.
@frank47hammer “Compulsion? What could be more uncomfortable than a reality that is disjunct to one’s natural phenomenology? What desire could be stronger than to alter reality to being more in concert with one’s metaphysic?” I would totally agree with that statement. Alcoholic’s have been known to want to see the world through “rose-colored glasses.” That is why AA, for example, puts so much emphasis on a reliance on a “higher power.” Also, Native Americans are extremely spiritual.
@Hammersley1967 I would say that is possible. Dr. Gordis stated that “We now must determine what these genes are and whether they are specific for alcohol or define something more general, such as differences in temperament or personality that increase an individual’s vulnerability to alcoholism.” Certainly temperament and personality affects perception of reality. I would have to say psychic has to be genetic as well because it’s a function of the brain, which has evolved by genetic selection
@frank47hammer
“I believe there has to be some physical cause”
Physical or psychic?
Is it possible that one’s perception of reality is genetically based?
Compulsion? What could be more uncomfortable than a reality that is disjunct to one’s natural phenomenology? What desire could be stronger than to alter reality to being more in concert with one’s metaphysic?
Peele says alcoholism is less prevalent in wealthy classes. Are they the gene pool better adapted to modern social relations?
@frank47hammer It would be hard to do a genetic study on Native Americans because there are than 300,000 pure blooded indians left, and they don’t easily volunteer for medical studies. But after seeing how they drink, I believe there has to be some physical cause. Indians in the past had been known to drink grain alcohol until they became blind. That is more than just a choice, it is a compulsion that is stronger than that for sex, or for needing food or water.
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@frank47hammer
Now this psychic style would not be a single gene. The phenomenon of human cognition is far too complex and primary for it to be derivative of a single gene. It would be diffused throughout the entire genome. The genetic complex would never be found. And perhaps that is why it hasn’t been found.
(Mind you, I still don’t think that psychic maladaptation would qualify as a disease.)
Just a thought…
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@frank47hammer
These groups have been isolated from the rest of the “civilized” world for tens of thousands of years and have not been subjected to the selection pressures that would have eliminated most of the people with the older style psychic style (that were not psychically adapted to urbanized life) from the gene pool – leaving a majority that are pshyco-genetically better adapted to life “in the big smoke”.
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That alcohol intoxication may provide a “corrected” style of cognition that makes the drunk feel more connected to the world and his human environment? This would explain why indigenous people such as Native Americans and Australian Aboriginals have such extraordinarily high rates of alcoholism.
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Today our physic style is more of a “Gesellschaft” psychic style in that we meet hundreds of thousands of people in our lifetime. But the vast majority of those human interactions are brief, instrumental, and superficial. For example, buying a ticket from a bus driver.
Now, is it possible that people of the older “Gemeinschaft” psychic style don’t cope well in the new “Gesellschaft” mode of human relations?
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@Hammersley1967 At the bus depot, drunken American natives would get into fights or pass out on the benches. A study showed 12% of Native American deaths were listed as alcohol related, and 80% of their teenagers drink. And the alcoholism rate is 4 times higher than the national average. That would mean about 8 million people in our prisons instead of 2 million. I did read some genetic studies that do show that different races, particularly Asians, do metabolize alcohol differently than others.
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How ’bout this.
There is a theory that a minority of people (5%) are of an older style neuro-cognition. It’s called the “Gemeinschaft” psychic style and represents the older psychic style of human relations. That is, in the past before urban development we lived in small nomadic groups and perhaps only met 50 people in our whole lives. But we REALLY knew those people intimately.
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@Hammersley1967 And it is not just poverty that causes it. Alcohol caused poverty in the American Native community. Benjamin Franklin gives a good account of how Indians reacted to alcohol in the 1750s. They couldn’t stop drinking then, and they can’t stop drinking now when they start. It makes them crazy. I met one who wound up in jail every time he drank. I made a woman who drank and wound up in a domestic dispute, wound up in a psych ward, and came out with two badly blackened eyes.
So there are certain people, especially type 2 alcoholics, whose genotype makes them vulnerable to alcoholism. All the genes and chromosomes involved and their alcoholic influences may not all be worked out, but it is a factor in alcoholism. They’re will never be a single gene found that is responsible for alcoholism such as for cystic fibrosis. They are different types of genetic disorders. But I seen what alcohol does to American Natives when I lived up in the Dakotas.
@Hammersley1967
“No one gene ‘makes’ one an alcoholic. But it is important to discover the variations in individual genes that affect one’s risk for the disease. This will improve our ability to prevent and treat the disease.”
Howard J. Edenberg, Chancellor’s Professor and professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, and of medical and molecular genetics, at the Indiana University School of Medicine.
@Hammersley1967 (ScienceDaily, July 1, 2007) Alcoholism has been discribed as a multifactorial disease. Therefore, it is not surprising that not all identical twins become alcoholics, even at a 55% rate. Genes play a role in alcoholism, but so does lifestyle and the environment. As NIAAA Director Enoch Gordis, M.D. states, “Based on our current understanding, it is probable that environmental influences will be at least as important, and possibly more important, than genetic influences.”
@Hammersley1967 Yes, I see what you mean. Single gene diseases, such as cystic fibrosis, should be near 100% in identical twins, where the disease is all genetic and the environment plays no role. But with the multifactorial genetic diseases, where the environment and life style choices play a big role, such as diabetes and cancer, there is a far greater variability, even in identical twins. For example, “Only 15% of identical twins will both develop as rheumatoid arthritis.”
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@frank47hammer
CONSIDER: In all the hundreds of documented mono-zygotic twins that suffer from cystic fibrosis, there has never been ONE documented case of two identical twins with one inheriting the ∆F508 gene (CF sufferer) and the other twin not (not CF).
That’s a 100% inheritance correspondence of that gene.
In regards to drinking patterns and identical twins?
A 0.45% disparity I could live with…
At 4.5% I would have doubts…
But a whopping 45% disparity?
No way… Not Plausible…
@frank47hammer For example, one twin in Bruder’s study was missing some genes on particular chromosomes that indicated a risk of leukemia, which he indeed suffered. The other twin did not.” There is a variant even on a genetic disease. Identical twins show similar behavior in the 60% to 80% range. I don’t think 55% is too far off. And identical twins are more similar to each other than fraternal twins. So could still give some indication to genetic factors in alcoholism.
@Hammersley1967 a genetic state called copy number variants. Normally people carry two copies of every gene, one inherited from each parent. “There are, however, regions in the genome that deviate from that two-copy rule, and that’s where you have copy number variants,” Bruder explains. These regions can carry anywhere from zero to over 14 copies of a gene.
@Hammersley1967 There is one other thing on this, according to the article “Identical Twins’ Genes Are Not Identical” in Scientific American, 4/03/2008, identical twins genomes are not always identical. Geneticist Carl Bruder of the University of Alabama compared 19 sets of adult identical twins genomes. In some cases, one twin’s DNA differed from the other’s at various points on their genomes. At these sites of genetic divergence, one bore a different number of copies of the same gene
@frank47hammer
“Then why is it 27% higher than the rate for for like-sex dizygotic twins?”
Perhaps because identical twins are treated in more concordance than heterozygous twins…
Who knows? But the 27% differential is certainly not evidence for a genetic causality. Indeed, the 45% discordance of drinking patterns is EXTREMELY strong evidence for genetic not being a factor in alcoholic behaviour.
Same goes for the Goodwin study. 82% of sons from alcoholic fathers did not become alcoholic.
@frank47hammer
“Perhaps identical twins are identical physically but not behaviorally-their active and non-active genes may not be identical.”
Nope… By definition monozygotic twins have exactly the same genome…
EXACTLY…
“Identical twins will not make the exact same choice everytime as their twins.”
Indeed, more often than not, they don’t make the same choices…
So, if behaviour is genetically determined, there dispositions and choices should coincide completely…
They do not…