The Harms of Constructing Addiction as a Chronic, Relapsing Brain Disease
The authors clarify that genetic predisposition doesn’t equate to compulsion, emphasizing the probabilistic, not deterministic, nature of genetic risk. They counter the argument that individually weak predictive power of alleles negates the significance of polygenic risk by emphasizing the need for larger sample sizes in addiction research to account for the substantial genetic contribution. Attempts […]
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