Ties that blind: facing up to the family secret

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Alcoholism is a disease that damages families as well as individuals. Unhealthy coping mechanisms develop in family members to accommodate the alcoholic parent or child. Psychological and social problems related to alcoholism are discussed.

Social aspects

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To hell and back: POW remembers the horrors of captivity

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Bill Lowe spent more than three years in a Japanese prison camp after being captured in the Philippines. He was shipped to a camp in Japan in 1944 and was there when the war ended. He believes he survived because he never lost hope.

Personal narratives, World War II, 1939-1945, Prisoners of war, Japanese (Asian people), Lowe, Bill

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Hidden legacies

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Researchers are hoping to find a genetic predisposition to alcoholism. Scientists have located a modifying gene that increases the effect of the still unidentified genetic marker for alcoholism.

Genetic aspects

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