Citation

Bohman M, Sigvardsson S, Cloninger R, von Knorring AL. Alcohol Alcohol. Suppl. 1987; 1: 55-60.

Affiliation

Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Umeå, Sweden.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1987, Oxford University Press)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

3426732

Abstract

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.

Language: en