Against the background of war in Ukraine: Russia is growing
About it writes the Russian edition "Kommersant" with reference to the collection of Rosstat "Healthcare in Russia-2023", published at the end of December. According to statistics, from 2010 to 2021, the number of Russians with alcohol addiction decreased almost twice - from 100 thousand to 53 thousand people. However, in 2022 their number increased to 54. 2 thousand.
Volodymyr Mendelevich, Head of the Department of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology of Kazan State Medical University, said that in recent years the number of alcoholic psychoses that occur only in those people who have reached a difficult stage of addiction has been "dramatically increasing". According to expert journalists, such dynamics are provoked by a set of factors, in particular pandemic, socio-economic upheavals and "strengthening of geopolitical confrontations".
According to the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, the trend before decreased alcohol consumption and directly related to alcohol mortality was disturbed during the coronavirus pandemic. The department believes that the cause of "stress from the pandemic", as well as the fact that inflation is ahead of the increase in excise duties on alcohol.
For his part, the head of the narcological and psychiatric clinic Ruslan Isaev acknowledged that the increase in the number of alcohol abuses related to "socio-economic upheavals, increased geopolitical confrontations and sanction pressure. " We will remind, on January 7 the adviser to the mayor Mariupol Petro Andryushchenko reported that in the temporarily occupied Mangusha, which in the Mariupol district of Donetsk region, 12 people were in intensive care due to alcohol poisoning.