alcoholism
Alcoholism itself is a complicated issue. ... Just as there are many factors, there are many ideas on how alcoholism is caused and why it happens in only a small percentage of the population. ... One theory on alcoholism and its causes is the Biochemical Theory. ... There have been numerous studies done on family heredity and its link to alcoholism, but each one doesn’t produce the same results. ... Armak did a study on family histories and family links with alcoholism. ... He produced numbers that showed alcoholism between brothers of known alcoholics was 21 percent, among sisters nine percent, among fathers 26 percent and among mothers two percent compared with general frequencies of three to four percent for the general population. ... The study showed that sons of alcoholics were at a greater chance of developing alcoholism than the sons of non-alcoholics, 18 percent versus five percent. ... There was also a control group of children who had no genetic link to alcoholism and were also in foster homes. ... This makes it harder to pinpoint alcoholism when there are conflicting studies on only one aspect of alcoholism. ... The study was also unstructured and uncontrolled by nature making it hard to correlate solidly with alcoholism. ... The third type is psychodynamic interpretations of alcoholism.