When I was born, my family lived about a 5 minute walk from the current Apple Computers headquarters in Cupertino, California, USA. Much has changed here in Silicon Valley. Very few cherry or apricot orchards remain, and now it is a center of the information economy for the planet.
Amidst the many Google, Amazon, Facebook buildings in Santa Clara Valley are many wine bars, breweries, and marijuana dispensaries. Like any other city, town or village about 15 percent of the population has the gene for addiction. Some cultures have an unusually high rate of addiction, but addiction is a problem in every corner of the world.
My grandfather, Early Byrd Davis, was Cherokee; Native Americans have a 75 percent rate of alcoholism. He was a raging alcoholic. How do I know if I carry the gene for addiction?
Please watch this video on genetics and addiction by Dr. Jerry Callaway:
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