sorry it’s super long
the genetic theory is super flawed, as a parent with drug addiction is extremely neglectful at best, abusive at worst. This is true with almost all genetic models for mental illness. Mainstream psychiatry has thought schizophrenia is basically completely genetic, but the tide is shifting in the very recent years. It is very hard to tell whether the mental illness is caused by nature or nurture, for if a parent is mentally ill, the kid will for sure pick up some traits/have adverse childhood experiences etc. Especially with substance abuse. If one watches the parents use substances as coping mechanism, most likely they will also pick up the same coping mechanism. The trauma one gets from having an addict as parent runs very deep, they even have 12 step programs for adult children of alcoholic. It’s very tricky.
When you see a whole family tree of alcoholic and drug addicts it’s tempting to come to the conclusion that it must be genetic, but what you don’t see usually is how easily accessible drugs and alcohol are to the kids, how normalized using drugs and getting drunk become in the family, and some parents even abuse these substances with their kids. Before I was exposed to this level of depravity I didn’t think it exists in the world, but some teenagers and young adults who were starved of attention and love by their addicted parents they get into the parents drug of choice just so they can do sth and spend time together. I think the idea that alcoholism is an illness, is genetic etc is pushed by the left to ~destigmatize~ substance abuse and they want you to believe junkies are not useless pieces of shit who has zero inner strength and perseverance to pull themselves out of the situation. Also if it’s a disease, (((suboxone)))!!!
Literally if you are addicted, grin and fucking bear it for a few months because you shouldn’t live your life this way, it simply can’t be. Pl I’m speaking from experience, just say fuck it and become normal again, it’s hard, but it’s not like a broken leg. You literally just pull yourself together and have some self restraint and it gets better slowly, and then you don’t have “substance abuse disorder” anymore. It being a predestined disease is massive self-pitying junkie cope. Society needs to reinstate the correct view that junkies and alcoholics need tough love, discipline, and shame. What they need is being thrown into a pit in the ground with some medical monitoring so they don’t die from initial detox. Too many of them are running around thinking poor me I’m so unlucky to have this illness uwu guess it’s not my responsibility to change the trajectory of my life

. You see this mindset from nearly all the troons as well.
More sperge on genetics and schizophrenia: I’m mentioning schizophrenia because it has been considered as the mental illness most influenced by genetics for decades. They came to the conclusion first when the asylums freed up with the invention of antipsychotics, and for whatever reason they thought aha! Since we can cure this disease with medication it must be genetic. Still many psychiatrists think this is the case. Even the twin studies are super flawed. Recently Nature published a study where the scientists thought they found the “schizophrenic gene”. If you have this gene, your chance of getting schizophrenia goes up to 1.3% from 1%. But if you look at other risk factors such as sexual abuse, that will make you astronomically more likely to be schizophrenic. The same arguments can be applied to the supposedly real addiction gene.