And when he's here and sober, he just runs this place. Aldon Potts is arrested by officer Jay Young Running Crane after the manager of Ick's package store called police to report Potts was trying to break a window . As it turned out, Potts had been released from jail just hours before with a 10-day sentence suspended on condition of good behavior. And a little before midnight, he was arrested again. After threatening to punch out the arresting officer and after pushing the jailer around, he was held overnight in the drunk tank.
Some doctors believe a predisposition to alcoholism is passed on genetically.
One early study, for example, found that Indians have difficulty metabolizing alcohol. However, that study was flawed, said Philip May, former chairman of the sociology department at the University of Montana and outgoing head of the University of New Mexico's Center on Alcoholism. Furthermore, Indians are uncomfortable with the medical model because it suggests alcoholism may be inevitable, said Dr. Kathleen Masis, behavioral health officer for the IHS in Billings. Sons of alcoholics are four times more likely to become alcoholics themselves. Cultural causes Like many tribes, the Blackfeet never used drugs or alcohol, even during religious ceremonies, until white men introduced it in the mid 1800s, Whitegrass said.