They need to reassess the study, my 57 yr old brother is a severe alcoholic, always drunk and drinking Ever Clear, and is brown eyed and fair skinned.
I on the other hand am blue eyed, fair skinned and would get drunk on 2 shots of Scotch. Knowing my inability to ‘hold’ my liquor I stop at 1. My mama only raised 1 weak fool and I’m not it.
There was NO drinking in our house as we were growing up.
The American Indian would disagree.
I was a drinker for 25 years, with the last 5 mainly being the hard stuff. A functional alcoholic. Most are. Eventually your body, and in my case my Pancreas, says no more and you have to choose between eating and drinking. I would love to say I went through some kind of moment of clarity or emotional awakening. None of that happened.
My body just said NO more. It’s like the old story of the grandpa sticking the boy in the closet with a pack of cigars and the boy can’t come out until all the cigars are smoked. The boy never smoked again after that. I just see it as it took me 25 years to come out of that alcohol filled closet.
I don’t believe in the Dogma of AA. People can make it without it.