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Sunday, April 13, 2008

Russia to Face Alcoholic Catastrophe


March 26. VOSTOK MEDIA – “For the last years the Russians have been drinking much more than in the soviet period,” medical workers said at a press conference in the Open Institute of Public Health. The doctors consider that country is moving towards alcoholic catastrophe. Specialists are sure that it’s impossible to solve a problem only by reducing alcohol sales. The problem can be curbed only if the population’s mentality is changed.

The Noviye Izvestiya newspaper reports according to a report of the World Health Care Organization the annual consumption of alcohol in Russia accounts for 15.2 litres per capita. The statistics takes into account all citizens including children and disabled old men.
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