What makes someone more likely to engage in alcohol abuse?

Question by Dannaay: What makes someone more likely to engage in alcohol abuse?
Are there any survey data on it?

Best answer:

Answer by elchamber88
A lot. Emotional, mental, biological, and their race. Apparently, race also plays the part.

I’d say that a person becomes more addicted to anything, and especially with legal substance, is the perspective that the person is not addicted to something.

I would say that most alcoholics are that way because using the substance was normal, or felt normal, to them.

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