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Rehab News:Sweet tooth and novelty-seeking may predict alcoholism

People who have a particular liking for sweet things and are also constantly on the look out for new experiences may be more likely to become alcoholics, research has found.

A study by experts at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine aimed to build on previous evidence that a pleasurable response to sweet taste is linked to a genetic vulnerability to alcoholism.

The researchers recruited 165 middle-aged patients who were admitted to a residential treatment programme for drug or alcohol dependence, or for interpersonal problems relating to family members who were alcoholics or drug abusers.

Assistant professor of psychiatry Alexei Kampov-Polevoy revealed: "We tested the hypothesis that sweet liking can predict alcoholic status of an individual.

"Analysis showed that sweet liking by itself was not sufficient to predict alcoholic status of an individual … sweet likers were found among both alcoholics and non-alcoholic patients.

"Only a combination of sweet liking and elevated novelty seeking… was sufficient to make such a prediction."

The expert noted that the findings, which are published in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, are unsurprising.

"Children of alcoholics are reported to have a heritable dysfunction of the brain reward system that makes them super sensitive to the rewarding effects of alcohol," he explained.

"The same brain dysfunction causes the preference for stronger sweet solutions, or sweet liking. If such an individual has also high novelty seeking that causes early experimentation with alcohol, it significantly increases the risk of development of alcoholism."