Anne Truong MDMen's Sexual Health Doctor

Addiction: Is It In Your Genes? #addictionawareness #genetics #geneticaddiction #shorts #fyp

11 Dec 2023 · 1 min

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A brief YouTube short by Anne Truong MD addressing whether addiction has a genetic component. The speaker states that genetics do play a role: people with parents, siblings, or grandparents who struggled with addiction are at higher risk themselves. The video clarifies that 'addiction' is a general term and that exposure influences which specific substance or behavior someone may become addicted to.

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Is there a genetic component with addiction? Yes, there actually is. So we find that people who have relative parents, siblings, grandparents that struggle with addiction, they are at higher risk of struggling with addiction as well. And addiction being the general term meaning not necessarily related to a particular substance or behavior, so could be that based on what they have been exposed to in their life, that may be the addiction that they go with. If they were never exposed to porn, then they can't be addicted to porn.