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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does your friend think that she is such a bad parent that she is raising criminals?[/quote]

Do you seriously think no criminals come from good parents?  Good parents produce drug addicts. Drug addicts commit crimes. It’s part of the disease of needing money for drugs but frequently not having any. [/quote]

Mmmmm...drug addicts are created by nurture much more than nature.  Think about the behavior chain.  That didn't spontaneously happen.  It was nurtured from the moment of birth.[/quote]

I have two cousins who are drug addicts. They were adopted as infants. At least one of their parents was an addict. Their adoptive parents raised them well, taught them how to behave, etc. They experimented with drugs in high school and that was it. Their sibling was not adopted and also experimented. She is not an addict and went to graduate from college. Nature is what got them hooked.[/quote]

I am sorry but the research doesn't support any of what you're saying.  I appreciate that you're trying to "protect" your aunt/uncle but you need to recognize that those kids ended up experimenting with drugs because their parents were not providing the right support and structure in their household.  They also weren't monitoring the kids very well.  The sibling who was not adopted (raised by another family or her birth family?) got what she needed so she stayed on the right path.  If your cousins had gotten what they needed they, too, would not be drug addicts today.  [/quote]

You absolutely won’t be taken seriously claiming “the research doesn’t support..” and then citing no research.

Also, you’re flat wrong about “the research.”

“ At least half of a person's susceptibility to drug addiction can be linked to genetic factors.”

https://www.apa.org/monitor/2008/06/genes-addict

Epigenetic factors associated with intravenous drug use - https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/115/41/10434.full.pdf

“ Plutarch was right to say that addiction is often a familial trait — and it seems that much of this risk is carried genetically. Joni Rutter, director of the Division of Basic Neuroscience and Behavioral Research at the US National Institute on Drug Abuse in Bethesda, Maryland, says that regardless of the drug involved, about 50% of the risk is genetic, within a range of about 40–60%.”
https://www.nature.com/articles/522S48a[/quote]

DP here: your cited article says half a person’s susceptibility to addition is genetic. That means half isn’t. That means that good parents CAN produce kids who have addiction problems. [/quote]

I’m confused by your post.  Yes, of course good parents can have kids who are addicts. Good people can struggle with addiction.  It’s a complex problem, much of which is caused by genetics.  Trauma and a whole variety of diseases can also increase one’s susceptibility to addiction.  Millions of good parents also naively gave their kids the opioids that they were prescribed during the 00’s, and lots of those kids — who had no previous addiction issues —- became addicted to opioids.

My post was in response to the PP who seemed to be claiming that research shows that addiction is caused by neglectful patently.  That’s just incorrect.

I was reaction [/quote]

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