Bohman M, Sigvardsson S, Cloninger R, von Knorring A L
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Umeå, Sweden.
Alcohol Alcohol Suppl. 1987;1:55-60.
Recent population, family and adoption studies suggest that the susceptibility to alcoholism is a heterogenous phenomenon. Specific combinations of predisposing genetic factors and environmental stressors appear to interact before alcoholism develops. These studies indicate that the increasing use of alcohol markedly influence the observed inheritance of alcohol abuse. It is concluded that the problems of alcoholism is less a medical than a political problem.
