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Addiction and younger siblings

Older/Younger? Addiction?

  • I'm younger I've had a history of addiction

    Votes: 61 24.2%

  • I'm younger and I've been able to avoid addiction

    Votes: 35 13.9%

  • I'm older and I've had a history of addiction

    Votes: 83 32.9%

  • I'm older and I've been able to avoid addiction

    Votes: 43 17.1%

  • I am an only child.

    Votes: 30 11.9%
  • Total voters
    252
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I was wondering if there is a correlation between addiction and being the younger sibling.

This may seem like a weird connection, but I've recently read alot about the differences between older and younger siblings. For example, politicians are more likely to be older siblings. Studies show that older siblings usually score a little higher on IQ tests, and psychology tells us that they presumably are more "responsible".

Can this be related to addiction? Are addicts more likely to be younger siblings than older?
 
Youngest sibling here. Two older brothers. Both of them did the typical "smoke a small amount of pot, nothing else" thing that everybody does.

I'm the one who's done every drug on the planet, spent plenty of years addicted to opiates, been arrested a handful of times sporadically in that period, now on suboxone and addicted to benzos, etc

All in all, I'm the "fuck-up" of the family - but the most successful of the three of us. LOL!
 
Its the opposite for me, im the oldest of four and also the only one thats touched any drugs or had any addictions.
 
Youngest. Smartest. Experimented with the most drugs. But no addiction.. yet.

Edit: A mod should add a poll
 
I'm the oldest, the smartest and the fuck up. Although I've unfucked up pretty well. Go me.
 
I am the oldest and the youngest, thus I am successful at being a fuckup.
 
Oldest. HUGE fuck-ups in the past.

My younger sister is my exact opposite in that regard. She's never broken a rule in her life.
 
My younger bro' is still just starting in high school, so who knows how things will turn out. I've basically told him he can smoke weed as much as he likes unless it starts reflecting negatively on his school-work (which is basically what my dad tells him anyway), drink in moderate amounts and never too often (as alcoholism runs heavily in the family), and don't even touch pills, especially opiates (again opiate addiction runs in the family). I also told him not to try psychedelics until college, but I won't be really heartbroken if he does or anything. I think at this point in time he's tried smoking weed once but didn't feel anything (probably from not inhaling), and he doesn't seem nearly as fascinated with drugs as I was at that age/still am, which I suppose is a good thing.

So I guess we'll just have to see how it turns out. I'm quite a "dabbler" but I keep that a secret from him since I don't want to set a bad example. I'm the oldest in my family of four children and the only one who's done anything besides pot or alcohol, and my younger sisters haven't ever really smoked pot heavily either (they're the type who just smoke a joint at a party or once in a blue moon with friends, I'd be surprised if either of them had ever actually paid for it).
 
Weird suggestion. I've tried a little bit of everything, and have found that I'm not all that attracted to the more addictive drugs.

My younger sister on the other hand, spun right out of control for a while there.
 
maybe we should narrow the definition of "fuck-up".

It would be interesting to see the distribution of siblings at AA meetings. I think both older and younger siblings dabble in drugs; the question is whether younger siblings have a harder time avoiding the really bad, long-term addictions.
 
I'm the oldest. Have never taken an IQ-test, but I'm positive that I'm smarter than my little sister (as for solving logical problems at least). Have had an addiction for a short period of time.

Actually, I thought it would be different than OP's theory. My little sister has definitely learned from my mistakes and thus I think she's less prone to becoming an addict.
 
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