Natural Law Episode 40: Addictions Part 3

Recommended Reads: The Truth About Addiction and Recovery by Stanton Peele - Exploding the Gene Myth by Ruth Hubbard and Elijah Wald. In this episode I will discuss: awareness paradox, multiple factors determine habits becoming addictions, some addictions can be worse than others, human perceptions of different habits, consciousness levels of different involvements, cocaine is garbage, genetic inheritance, the Goodwin Study of children of alcoholics, article covering genetic connections to addiction, Kendler et al. 2003, problems with genetic reductionism, genes do not explain everything, genetic predispositions are largely due to conditioning, genetic inferences can lead to eugenics, just because a person uses a particular drug does not mean they are addicted.