
07/19/2025
At Victory Recovery Partners, a network of seven addiction/recovery centers on Long Island, New York, we provide outpatient services to our patients, helping them to overcome their addictions and substance use disorders. When providing counseling services to our patients, we recognize that both behavioral health counselors as well as the patients should be educated to best help our team provide effective treatments for recovery. With that being said, understanding the causes of addiction can help expedite the recovery process. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, one significant cause of addiction is genetics.
Learn about how genetics can affect substance abuse here:
Recently, there have been significant breakthroughs in research on how genetics can contribute to the likelihood of developing an addiction.