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If society is making us sick, how can we heal?

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

Is There a Gene for Alcoholism?

"I found myself suspended in time, almost outside of time, above time. I could see these traumas being handed down like batons from generation to generation," he says. "We were seeing reality because what is passed on are not genes from what generation to the next, but trauma." There's no such gene for addiction or any particular mental health condition - that's a scientific truth.

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