Genetics

I drank because of my own unresolved issues, but there's a lot of evidence that genetics may be a factor in alcoholism. Everyone in our family should be very careful. My Aunt drank herself to death over several years. At one point, her Doctor was trying to get her to only have one glass of wine in the morning. My Grandfather Heltzel died before I was born, but there's some evidence that he was an alcoholic, and I'm pretty sure my Uncle Don is an alcoholic too. This doesn't mean none of my children can drink, but everyone should be very careful because there's a chance you already have some genetic predisposition to alcoholism.