Talk:Alcoholism

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From the description here about the evolution of alcoholism or alcohol consumption it would follow that all humanity developed a tolerance to it at some level. If that's the case why has alcohol consumption been so devastating for Native Americans? If the consumption of naturally occurring fermented fruit was the original food that introduced humans to alcohol then why don't Native Americans have more tolerance to alcohol? Seeing as we all came out of Africa, and therefore all of us would've eaten fruit that was fermented why is it that Native Americans cannot tolerate it well? I think it's because the agricultural revolution made fermentation of food much easier and much more common. After all, grains can be made into alcohol too, not just fruit. And the domestication of grain was an integral part of the agricultural revolution. Native Americans did not heavily rely on agriculture for the source of their food before contact with Europeans. Most tribes lived the lives of hunter-gatherers and while they did plant corn it was not on the scale that other societies, like European societies, relied on domesticated plants. And so Native Americans didn't build up a tolerance to alcohol the way societies did that relied on agricultural as their primary source of food. I don't think it was naturally occurring fermented fruit that built up a tolerance to alcohol in early humanity. I think it was the agricultural revolution that made alcohol readily available from the fruit in orchards and the grain in fields. ~2025-36456-77 (talk) 12:37, 31 December 2025 (UTC)

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Change the name to alcoholism to alcohol use disorder (AUD) because this removes stigma on the illness please ☺️ Thanks! ~2026-11280-40 (talk) 01:37, 20 February 2026 (UTC)

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