Two older studies indicate that people with blood type A and rh negative blood are more likely to drink heavily and rh negative people are more likely to use drugs. I am avoiding “alcoholics” and “drug addicts” on purpose as neither should be labeled as a disease. I am A- and no: This is not self-deprecating “humor”.
See the studies below:
OBJECTIVE:
To expound the argument that alcoholism (or “problem drinking”) is not best regarded as a disease.SUMMARY:
Excessive drinking can cause physical disease and involve physical dependence without therefore being a disease itself. The “disease concept” of alcoholism is not needed to justify medical intervention or a caring approach to those who are dependent on alcohol. There is a specific and a general version of the disease concept of alcoholism. The specific disease concept, associated mainly with the Fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous, is contradicted by empirical evidence and unhelpful for preventive and treatment responses to problem drinking, especially for the effort to detect and modify problem drinking at an early stage. The more general disease concept shares these disadvantages and is also ineffective in engendering sympathetic attitudes towards problem drinkers among the general public. It is more useful to view problem drinking as the result of the interaction between the individual’s personality and the social context in which he or she has learned how to drink.CONCLUSION:
For an effective and compassionate societal response to problem drinking, the disease model of alcoholism should be replaced by a social learning perspective.
(See: Why alcoholism is not a disease.)
Drug addiction with being rh negative:
Table 3 shows that the risk proportion of dependence on drugs in individuals who have negative Rh is 3.1 times more than those who have positive Rh (OR = 3.1, CI 95%: 2.09-4.76, P < 0.0001). Table 3 shows the frequency distribution of different blood types in both control and experiment groups and totally the frequency of blood type AB with a risk proportion (OR= 6.07, CI 95%: 16.4-2.2, P < 0.0001) has a significant difference compared with other blood types and the highest risk proportion was between blood types AB- and B+, so much so that the blood type AB- had a frequency of 12.4 times more than B+ among the addicts.
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Upon reading your comments and the article, I thought about my father, who was A negative, and a dreadful alcoholic, but I would not have thought of his blood type being a reason for his alcoholism!
Once, Dad went into DT’s from alcohol withdrawal. Being a nurse, I told both my parents repeatedly that Dad was going into DT’s. He was a heavy hard liquor drinker at the time, and quit drinking without seeing his primary physician. His hands began to tremble, and he started having what he called visions: a angel materialized a cigarette from thin air and gave it to him; he claimed my roof was leaking onto my dining table (it was not)! I was very worried about my Dad, but my parents strongly resisted me taking Dad into the hospital for medical intervention. During the night of Dad’s third day without alcohol, he went into full delirium, thought his home was being invaded by burglars. Luckily, he “protected” Mom from the “intruders,” using his body to shield her from the supposed gunfire…Mom was terrified, but luckily Dad did not fight going to the hospital; he gladly went because he thought he’d been shot in the abdomen! He was doubled over, holding his abdomen….
After that episode, which he fortunately survived (you can DIE from alcohol withdrawal), Dad always informed me when he wanted to quit drinking, and his doctor, who knew me quite well from the hospital, allowed me to detox Dad at home, and he never went into DTs again!
However, he continued to drink, but in his later years, his alcoholism was easier to manage. Eventually he changed to beer and wine drinking, but he could never have just one.
When he was dying of lung cancer, he demanded a beer on Christmas Eve, downed the half beer I gave him and demanded the other half… He was so weak, he passed out and slept until Christmas Day – petty scary for me and the rest of the family…After that, we bought alcohol-free beer for him – and of course didn’t tell him there was no alcohol in it! He never mentioned it, and we certainly didn’t, either! Drinking the alcohol free beer gave him some happiness during his last couple of weeks…
All my adult life (since Dad became a problem drinker), I was annoyed with Dad for being so weak and also obnoxious, at times, when the entire time, it may simply have been his blood type causing the behavior!
My entire family has negative blood, Mom was B-, Dad was A-, my two sisters are B-, I am O-, my niece is AB- and my nephew is B-. Those are the ones I know of. I’m not sure about other relatives. My Mother’s family is descended from France, and my father’s from Scotland.
P.S. – I enjoy your articles very much!
Thank you very much for both, your comment and your compliment, Debbie.
I have written extensively about the personality traits of A negatives, particularly men, in the past and will get more into it at a later time. Rh negatives in general rank badly for many mental and physical health related issues and there are several reasons for that. Discomfort in society as a whole being a huge contributor. None of this is meant as an excuse, but rather raising awareness for predispositions. Sorry for what you’ve had to go through. Hope some of the posts and comments like yours will prevent cases like these for the future.
Mike
Interesting….I to an A-, but neither drink heavily or do ANY drugs. My dad is AB+ and he’s the alcoholic in the family. My mom is also A- but is not a drinker or drug user.
Again, very interesting…..
I recently sent my DNA to Promethease out of curiosity. I am an A negative senior. What I got back was rather intriguing. Other than some general ailments such as arthritis and stomach ailments which I do suffer from, I was surprised to find there was a strong possibility of addiction mainly cigarettes and alcohol. I find this strange as I smoked a bit when younger but never really enjoyed it and was able to stop relatively easily. Now I cannot stand the smell of cigarette smoke and the only alcoholic drink I enjoy is a glass of red wine with a good meal. The one I found missing was the high risk of dementia as my mother and two of her 4 sisters and her mother had dementia by the time they were in their 80’s. I would have thought that I would also be a high risk candidate as they say it is hereditary.
I am wondering how accurate some of these test are.
I am O- and do not have any problems with drinking or drugs. My mother O + and she also has no problem. But both side of her family have all kinds of addiction.
I feel like the reason most have problems is due to abuse as a child. Instead of racing their fears they hide in addiction to something. Abuse is the main problem and feeling like you do not belong.
To simplify ( in my opinion) many people who abuse alcohol and or drugs do so to numb the pain and anxiety of feeling too deeply. Therefore it seems inevitable that rh negative people who are by nature more empathic, seek ways to fend off the depression and the frustrations that accompany feelings of hopelessness
This shows that there us a trend toward Rh susceptibility to alcoholism and addiction. It does not say that EVERY Rh negative person is going to have addition.
Genetic and karma are the same thing…
No they’re not.
Genetics are innate, through the physical body affecting the body’s core, and passing certain tendencies along, whereas, Karma is feeling our ‘just desserts’, or, put simply, the reward, good or bad, for deeds you have done, to earn it, as in, ‘like for like’. You do a bad deed, bad will return to you. You do a good deed, good will return to you. That’s Karma.
Addendum: apol’s for typos.
It should say
Karma is receiving our just desserts.
Not ‘feeling’ them.
I am O- Vodka/Alcohol causes my brain to have full blown seizures. no way to look past the fact that alcohol is poison, a poison i was happy to eliminate from my diet
I am B neg. I have never liked alcohol as it makes me feel sick. Even just one drink. In college and my 20s I learned to drink socially, mostly beer, but got no pleasure from it and dropped it entirely as I got older. If I have just one drink it makes my muscles feel heavy and I feel awful. So no alcohol for me.