Your forefathers/anscestors and tolerance to drugs?

[Treefa]

So just curious here, does drug use/abuse by parents grandparents etc.. leave you with a tolerance before you even know it?

for example: I know my grandma(deceased) and mom both had anxiety issues and used benzos for a long time. My grandma, rest her soul, had panic attacs for as long as i can remember, and has also taken xanax for as long as i can remember...My mother also has anxiety and takes benzos..

I also have anxiety! what are the odds eh? Except for me it takes alot more (2mg Alprazolam) for any noticable relief, while they took .25 .5 or 1mg at most..

So my question is, is it possible that THEIR tolerance rubbed off on ME? like genetically?

I just asked because i feel like i have some ungodly tolernce to benzoes even BEFORE i started taking them THeraputacally for anxiety...This makes it hard for me to get relief without appearing/feeling like a junkie...
and my granddads brother(grand uncle i guess hm?) was an alcoholic, wait so was my grandma's mother...

So could all this family history of alcohol/drugs have fucked me before i even knew it? esp as far as tolerance, im reall concerned with this%)

 

[effie]

Nope. Their DNA is fixed; the only way for evolution to happen is through random mutations that happen to prove advantageous. It's not possible for the environment to alter genes in that way.. It may be that you have an innate tolerance which has a genetic basis and was shared by other members of your family however, but any tolerance aquired during a lifetime will not transfer to offspring. The only exception I can think of is a dependent mother can give birth to a dependent child as it was exposed to the drug during pregnancy if it can cross the placenta..

Lamark believed that you could pass on things/characteristics that came about during your lifetime but his ideas are widely discredited..

 

[mrflowers00]

the only way that could happen is if your mother used while pregnant

 

[Treefa]

I wouldn be suprised...it was teh 80s man but hell idk thanks anyway bruhs

 

[NeighborhoodThreat]

Drug addiction runs in families. It runs in both my mother's and my father's side (mainly alcohol addiction, but addiction to other drugs as well). It seems to run alongside with mental illness. My father had a problem with alcohol when he was younger and still drinks - but in moderation.

effie is right though, tolerance is a different story.