Some Aspects of Nonbeverage Alcohol Consumption in the Former Soviet Union

Toxicity of some legally sold alcoholic beverages has contributed to enhanced mortality in Russia since 1990. Widespread drunkenness during the early 1990s facilitated privatization of economy: workers and some intelligentsia did not oppose privatizations because of drunkenness and involvement in illegal activities. Apparently, alcohol consumption and heavy binge drinking have been decreasing in Russia since approximately the last decade. Exaggeration of alcohol-related problems tends to veil shortages of the health care system. There are motives to exaggerate consumption of nonbeverage alcohol in order to veil the problem of toxicity of some legally sold beverages. It is essential to distinguish between legally and illegally sold rather than between recorded and unrecorded alcohol because sales of poor-quality alcoholic beverages in legally operating shops and kiosks occurred generally with knowledge of authorities.

• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Psychiatry Journal

• Publication date

  2015-04-30

• Fields of study

  Sociology, Medicine, Political Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1155/2015/507391PMID 26064871PMCID 4430673
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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