By Tracy Frisch, Gabor Mate — 2012
Most genetic studies completely ignore the science of epigenetics, which is how the environment actually turns certain genes on or off.
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In 2010, former gang leader turned community activist Big Mike Cummings asked UCLA gang expert Jorja Leap to co-lead a group of men struggling to be better fathers in Watts, South Los Angeles, a neighborhood long burdened with a legacy of racialized poverty, violence, and incarceration.
“What had happened to my beautiful boy? To our family? What did I do wrong?” Those are the wrenching questions that haunted every moment of David Sheff’s journey through his son Nic’s addiction to drugs and tentative steps toward recovery.