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If you want to keep your kids from drinking, start by looking at your own consumption.

New gene therapies could hold the key to freeing addicts from their abusive cycles – but will altering their receptors change their personalities as well?

New research into treating alcoholics with neural engineering has shown exciting results – and experts hope this could help other conditions

“The one gene, one disease idea is a thing of the past.” Scientists aren’t simply trying to identify people who are innately predisposed to incivility, immorality, or lawlessness. They’re examining how parenting, education, and other life experiences trigger those biological leanings.

Genetic risk information could one day enhance prevention and treatment of substance use, including alcohol use disorder, say researchers.

Today's substance use prevention efforts ignore individual genetic risk, but Rutgers research suggests DNA test results may eventually enhance prevention and treatment and improve outcomes.

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How much of our behaviour is pre-determined by our underlying biology?

Parents can transmit a genetic risk for alcohol problems to their children not only directly, but also indirectly via genetically influenced aspects of the home

Parents can transmit a genetic risk for alcohol problems to their children not only directly, but also indirectly via genetically influenced aspects of the home environment, such as marital discord or divorce, according to a Rutgers researcher.