Alcoholism is not hereditary!?

I posted a question: is alcoholism hereditary and after reviewing all of the answers i have concluded as i've already figured that alcoholism in not hereditary! It is a learned behavior! Just like smoking can be a learned behavior, chewing the food the way we do, and acting the way we do is learned.
If you're an alcoholic and think that it may be hereditary then let me ask you to google the fact that many hereditary diseases can be reversed and alcoholism is one of them.
Thank you all for your answers!

If alcoholism is hereditary then presumably people born to alcoholics are born with this disease. If this is the case then surely people could be an alcoholic without ever having drunk alcohol which doesn't make any sense.

Alcoholism does run through families but this is more due to the attitudes they have grown up with about alcohol, and the amount that has been around them. Lessons are learned about these things from a young age, and can mean that there are deeply ingrained attitudes about alcohol which the children of alcoholics carry through their lives.

I don't believe in an "addictive gene", just that people may be more susceptible to getting into addictive drugs. Alcohol is an addictive drug and people don't seem to take this - the most obvious cause of alcoholism - into account!

How do you explain that my brother is an alcoholic and so was my grandfather and Uncle and we NEVER meet them, nor did we know that they were alcoholics until my brother had been battling his addiction for years? My parents never drank, nor did people we grew up with or family and Friends. I think you might want to rethink this. I think additive personalities are hereditary.

Ok. But if both of your parents are alcoholics or addicts, that makes you predisposed to an addictive behavior. You cannot grow up in an alcoholic home and come out unscathed. It could be alcohol, food, drugs, any addiction. Both my parents were alcoholics. I have 2 sisters who are "functioning" alcoholics and another sister and myself who just don't drink because growing up in that house just makes alcohol nauseating to us.

so you're using "google the fact that many hereditary diseases can be reversed" to justify that alcoholism is not hereditary?
is that your contention?
you do see the error in that, one would hope.

no?
let me point it out.
"hereditary diseases can be treated, therefore, they are not hereditary."

Just because one has the gene to become an alcoholic doesn't mean they will.They have to drink first.There is a gene in all alcoholics and most times it is passed to their children,Weather that child chooses to drink and activate the gene is up to them.So in a sense your right-you dont have to be alcoholic and it is a learned behavior.