Like lets say I have a kid. And wait till he’s 10 or something and sit him down and explain drug use or alcoholism, and pretty much tell him he’s screwed due to a lineage of addicts?

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      And I answered. Find a real source and not a bunch of pseudonymous internet randos with no medical background. Don’t get medical advice from social media, people!

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        Fair. Maybe they’re hoping that commenters would cite their own answers

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          It’s actually a rule here that answers should be cited, but it’s never enforced

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          Not medical advice unless it’s to answer with solid sources.

          Forums like this are better for opinion-based questions. Like, “do you have advice on how to talk to a 10-year old about our family history of alcoholism?” To which my answer would include getting their facts straight so as not to confuse genetic predisposition for alcoholism and genetic alcoholism. The latter is not a thing.