This is it.
I metabolize alcohol very quickly too. I metabolize everything quickly but especially alcohol. I’m not an alcoholic. But I can drink 10+ shots in a night with zero tolerance. And when I was younger I been known to down a liter to myself.
While speed of metabolism plays a part, trauma plays a MUCH bigger part.
You are so ignorant it’s hard to read. The fact you bring up natives “making a killing at casinos” shows just how ignorant you actually are. If you traveled (and I’m sure you’ll respond that you have, cuz you’ve done everything that helps your counterpoint haven’t you lol) you’d see reservations in this country in absolute squalor. Only a tiny minority actually make money off the casinos, and while some do escape (same as some escape the ghettos) most do not.
Quicker metabolism is a drop in the bucket compared to what the US government has done to these poor people. When you’re getting sterilized without your consent even as late as the 70’s, there’s some real fucked up shit going on.
And for the love of god quit acting like some authority on debate and factoids that are more often wrong than not from you. You’re the guy that tells everyone all meth is pure as can be, then gets a bad batch and all sudden it must be a nationwide issue. It’s ironic.. Cuz whatever happens to you is apparently what’s happening to everyone. You are insufferable.
-GC
That's interesting and it's also bullshit because the largest proportion of "problem" youth drinkers are recreational drinkers NOT drinkers that have mental or psychological problems for whatever reason:
There's also a cultural historical, his tradition of drinking very very large amounts of alcohol.
"Compared with the limited available data on drinking by Indian adults, ongoing school-based surveys have provided a relatively complete picture of drinking among Indian youth since 1975 (
Beauvais 1996). In 1993, 71 percent of Indian youth from grades 7 to 12 reported having ever used alcohol, and 55 percent reported having ever been drunk. Approximately 34 percent of this age group reported having been drunk within the past month. About the same proportion of Indian and non-Indian youth in grades 7 to 12 had ever tried alcohol in their lifetime. When Indian youth drank, however, they appeared to drink in heavier amounts and experience more negative consequences from their drinking than did their non-Indian peers (
Oetting and Beauvais 1989).
Unlike the rates of illicit drug use, which tend to fluctuate over time, alcohol use among Indian youth has remained stable since 1975. Although tribal differences in drinking exist for adults, Indian adolescents seem to drink at similar levels regardless of tribe. In addition, higher levels of alcohol use have been found among Indian youth who live on reservations (
Beauvais 1992), youth who attend boarding schools (
Dick et al. 1993), and school dropouts (
Beauvais et al. 1996).
Among both Indian and non-Indian adolescents, drug and alcohol use are much more tightly coupled than they are among adults. Nearly all adolescent drug users also use alcohol, and more than one-half of adolescent alcohol users use drugs at some level. It is likely that adolescent drug use and adolescent alcohol use have many of the same causes and consequences. Data from school surveys generally indicate that drug use is higher among Indian youth compared with non-Indian youth for nearly all drugs and that marijuana use in particular is significantly higher among Indian youth. In 1993, for instance, nearly 50 percent of Indian students in grades 7 to 12 admitted to having ever used marijuana (
Beauvais 1996), whereas the rate for non-Indian youth of the same age was just 12 percent (
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration 1994).
Many researchers (
Mail and McDonald 1980;
May 1996) have reported a style of drinking frequently engaged in by both Indian youth and adults in which drinkers consume large amounts of alcohol in a short period of time and continue drinking until the supply is gone. This pattern—consuming five or more drinks in one session—is often called “binge drinking.” Furthermore, notable sharing of alcohol takes place among people drinking together. This pattern has been attributed to the early modeling of European colonists previously mentioned as well as to the effects of prohibition, which encouraged rapid drinking to avoid the detection and confiscation of alcohol. This style of drinking is only one of a wide range of styles practiced within Indian communities; aside from the research conducted by
May (1995), however, little has been done to characterize the various patterns.
Building on the work of
Ferguson (1968),
May (1995) proposed that at least two patterns of alcohol abuse exist within Indian groups.
“Anxiety drinkers” are chronic, heavy drinkers who exhibit a wide variety of medical, social, and psychological problems. They have minimal involvement in their traditional Indian culture and show little competency in meeting the demands of the majority culture (e.g., maintaining employment). Early alcohol-related mortality is common among this group.
In contrast, “recreational drinkers” engage in binge drinking less frequently than anxiety drinkers do, but they consume extremely high quantities when they do drink. (Although May termed this style of drinking “recreational drinking,” other researchers and treatment professionals have called it “problem,” “binge,” and “heavy episodic” drinking.) Although when not drinking, recreational drinkers can function fairly well in other areas of their lives, they do experience many alcohol-related consequences, with accidents of all types being the most common. Proportionally, recreational drinkers are the largest group of Indian alcohol abusers (about two-thirds of all heavy drinkers according to
May [1996]) and thus account for the largest number of alcohol-related problems in Indian communities."
The high prevalence of alcohol use and its consequences among American Indians may be attributed to a number of factors, including the influence of the European colonists who first made large amounts of alcohol available to Indians, as well as current ...
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So if you read the article, you'll actually discover that native American tribes, mainly in the north decided to adopt binge drinking from the European colonists.
This style of drinking consist of consumption of very large amounts of alcohol, usually until the alcohol is completely consumed and there's none left to drink.
According to the article above the majority of problem drinkers consider the drinking recreational and don't have a comorbid mental illness or condition.
Don't blame me for knowing what the literature and people who have studied this issue. The conclusions they have come to.
