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Poverty isn’t simply the condition of not having enough money. It’s the condition of not having enough choice and being taken advantage of because of that.
"The genetics lab at the University of Utah, a department that studies the role of genes in addiction, says that someone’s genetic makeup will never doom them to becoming an addict.28 Polk confirms that, despite any genetic connections, someone cannot become an alcoholic without repeatedly drinking alcohol."
From "This Naked Mind by Annie Grace