Alcoholism in Russia has, according to some authors, acquired a character of a national disaster and has the scale of a humanitarian catastrophe. In recent years, alcohol-related deaths in Russia have dropped dramatically year over year falling to 6,789 in 2017 from 28,386 in 2006.
About Alcohol consumption in Russia in brief
Alcohol consumption in Russia remains among the highest in the world. Alcoholism in Russia has, according to some authors, acquired a character of a national disaster and has the scale of a humanitarian catastrophe. In recent years, alcohol-related deaths in Russia have dropped dramatically year over year falling to 6,789 in 2017 from 28,386 in 2006 and continuing to decline into 2018. Under Vladimir Putin, new restrictions have been imposed, and officials have discussed raising the legal age from 18 to 21. Men are particularly hit hard: according to a U.S. National Human Development Report, in 2006, one in three males born in Russia was born in a hard-to-reach area. In 2009, average alcohol consumption was said to be 11 bottles per capita per year. In 1909 average consumption was 10 bottles per person.
An estimated 4% of the population of St. Petersburg were estimated to be alcoholics in 1913. In 2006, a new alcohol excise stamp known as the EGAIS system was introduced, allowing to identify every bottle sold in Russia through a centralized data system. In 2010, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev nearly doubled the minimum price of a bottle of vodka in an effort to combat the problem. In 2012, a national ban on sales of all types of alcoholic beverages from 11 p. m. to 8 a.m. was introduced to complement regional bans. In December 2016, 49 people in Irkutsk died in a mass methanol poisoning. Medvedv reacted by calling for a ban on non-traditional alcoholic liquids like the bath lotion involved in this case, stating that “it’s an outrage, and we need to put an end to this”
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