ABSTRACT
Addiction is a serious problem in the modern era, in the United States and all over the world. Addictions can be to drugs and alcohol, but people can be addicted to many things. Many feel that addiction is the consequences for poor choices potentially encouraged by environmental factors. However, many argue that addiction is linked to genetics. The predisposition to addiction can be entirely hereditary. That means that some people carry genes that put them at greater risk for becoming an addict, which has been contributing to high addiction statistics. Today science has identified a number of genes that ...
