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With advances in genomics and its applications to the individual, we'll begin to know who simply can never afford more than one or two runs at the 'buzz'.
We exist ab initio, boys 'n girls, as dyed-in-the-wool alcoholic, or not.
We just need to know -early- when we're inherently susceptible....like juvenile diabetes.
My Mom was one.... brilliant Wall-street lawyer...chivvied into suburban motherhood (mistake retrospectively) died at 36.. direct, booze.
I was one, male, drinking-to-the-buzz at 11.
Intermittently alcoholic 'til early in my 60s. Got in the way of a medical career that might have gone somewhere
Identify early...the tools are just around the corner.
