&gt; kids I knew, from the first drink of their lives, it made them a different, less stressed, happier person.<p>&gt; Point is, some people genetically have an alcohol problem.<p>Can you explain how you got from point A to point B above?  I don&#x27;t understand how your observation implies dependency, addiction, or any of the numerous problems that alcoholism causes in someone&#x27;s life.<p>It is also true that some people have inherited traits that interfere with processing alcohol.  But I don&#x27;t understand how you can conclude that someone has such a trait from observing their behavior when drinking, nor how you conclude that such a person is an alcoholic.  In fact, perhaps the most common genetic quirk (it&#x27;s not really a defect) is a missing encoding for alcohol dehydrogenase, which according to Wikipedia (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Alcohol_flush_reaction" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Alcohol_flush_reaction</a>) is correlated with <i>lower</i> rates of alcoholism.  Of course, others exist also.<p>Not really interested in the emotional reactions here on either side.  Just interested in why&#x2F;how you conclude that these three things are strongly correlated&#x2F;causal.