Alcoholism and Alcoholic Psychoses Trends in Late-Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia
Journal Title: International Archives of Addiction Research and Medicine - Year 2016, Vol 2, Issue 1
Abstract
The aim of the present paper was to discuss the trends in the incidence of alcoholism and alcoholic psychoses in late-Soviet and post-Soviet Russia in relation to social changes, quality of health care and the laws regulating production and sales of alcohol. Here we specified the number of alcohol dependent patients without alcoholic psychoses and the number of alcohol dependent patients with alcoholic psychoses, witches was admitted to hospital for the first time as incidence of alcoholism and incidence of alcoholic psychoses.
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