This is due to tradition, the genes ...

But let's take the so-called wine-growing nations - such as French, Italians, Georgians, there is interest below - they drink, but do not ruin oneself by drink. This is due to tradition, genes, environmental conditions, etc. But people who have wine appeared recently, look different. Take our Tartars. Ruin oneself by drink! Because I did not used to. A drug ... Here, I think, not just genes determine behavior. Likely to affect the socio-psychological cataclysm. Until 1992, all of my adult patients were alcoholics. Polls! Addicts with adhesives and pills were very few. In 1992, like clockwork, there was a shift to drugs. Why in 1992? Borders were opened in the country a flood of goods for every taste. And the emergence of drug was recorded as such. To eat, the substances that are so called legally (there is a biological drug, is another). Now, among my patients are alcoholics, no. Mirroring the situation. Before the "great capitalist construction" was 2% of drug addicts, others - alcoholics. Now - 2% of alcoholics, and the rest - addicts. Do alcoholics become smaller - people stopped drinking? Do not worry. People as a drink, and drink, simply a manifestation of the gene is suppressed mass anesthesia. But it is easier to drink. Why fuss? It may seem, the answer lies on the surface, but more complicated. There was a change of socio-economic structure. It changed everything. Including personal landmarks. There were other models of behavior, other assessments of events and actions. Bright is reflected in the teens - they are a litmus test, shown on a change in society. Now we demand a different type of personality. And what happened should have happened. Drug addiction - the answer to chaos? Of course! A society in which we live, requires different skills. Alas, anesthesia - one of those qualities. Nobody could have expected. That is, smart people, of course, had predicted something like this, but even they could not imagine such a scale and a velocity of "new". The bird is the abyss, once mired claw What features of the "new" personality attracted to drugs? Search sensual, momentary pleasure. And, at any price. This hedonism lies at the heart of the new socio-economic model that we are trying to adopt. We want to build a society of consumption in the American way. Consumption of goods, services or products. The underlying idea of ??comfort. The whole scientific and technological progress is directed only to it. And who is this comfort reaches - the thirteenth issue ... Americans, on whose image we are trying to blind themselves, all the energy diverted from the love of neighbor, and to love yourself. But there's health - the first value in the hierarchy of values ??... But we have this mixed with a special mentality, which for decades developed a reflex to do nothing. So you might guess, what pleasure can choose for yourself one of us in the consumer society. Mature personality will develop the spiritual realm, to collect books, paintings, to grow "up."