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The opioid crisis in Scotland, on par with the worst parts of the US. I wonder: could there be a genetic link between Scotland and the Appalachians on this, or is it all cultural and economic?
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The opioid crisis in Scotland, on par with the worst parts of the US. I wonder: could there be a genetic link between Scotland and the Appalachians on this, or is it all cultural and economic?
That's an interesting possibility. We know for a fact that groups like Native Americans are more susceptible to alcoholism because they lack the micro-evolutionary tolerances that societies with greater access to alcohol built up, so it makes sense that the certain groups of people might be more or less genetically prone to opioid addiction, due to a lack of tolerance for such compounds.
If we were to examine historical geographic availability and usage of opium products and related chemicals, I wouldn't be surprised to discover if Northern Europeans have the worst resistances, while Mediterrean cultures have some of the highest (within Europe, anyway). If that's the case, and if it also maps to addiction and overdose rates among different ethnic backgrounds in our own modern country, well, that seems like a huge potential connection.
If it turns out that the bulk of opioid abusers are of Germanic, Gaelic, British, or Scandinavian heritage, while groups like Italian Americans and Hispanics register particularly low on the scale, I think we have to seriously look deeper into that.
John Keats a grave digger, really? Here is a guy who died of consumption at age 25, and the infection progresses slowly. I doubt he was up and at it in a cemetery in the wee hours of the morning. Perhaps when he was 15?
About that Times quiz!!
PS: If you've read The Hyperion Cantos, how can you possibly believe Keats was a gravedigger?
"We know for a fact that groups like Native Americans are more susceptible to alcoholism because they lack the micro-evolutionary tolerances that societies with greater access to alcohol built up"
Don't you think just few thousands years would be too low for such micro-evolutionary tolerances to evolve? I mean, I heard so many times that few thousands years is just not enough.
No, not if the trait already exists (even if in a small portion of the population), laying fallow, so to speak, waiting for something to change in the environment to give it an advantage -- Selection in action -- then it can spread fast.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/05/humans-are-still-evolving-and-we-can-watch-it-happen
The height of the Dutch might be a good example. Their height has increased quite a bit since WWII. How? Well it looks like taller Dutch people have more children than shorter Dutch people. That's probably natural or sexual selection in action.
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