For the primary time in additional than a decade, in 2022, the variety of registered alcoholics elevated in Russia, in accordance with information revealed in Rosstat’s 2023 Well being Compendium.
Even the official statistics report a rise: within the interval from 2010 to 2021, the variety of newly identified circumstances of alcohol dependence and alcohol psychosis decreased virtually 3 times – from 153.9 thousand to 53.3 thousand.
Nonetheless, after a lower within the price in 2021, in 2022 there have been 54.2 thousand sufferers with newly found alcohol dependence underneath dispensary commentary. Amongst them, 12.9 thousand folks suffered from alcoholic psychosis. Since 2010, their quantity has decreased virtually 4 occasions – from 47 thousand sufferers to 12.8 thousand in 2021.
On the finish of 2022, the Ministry of Well being reported that throughout the 12 months the variety of Russians with alcohol dependence syndrome in rural areas elevated by 7%, the mortality price amongst rural residents as a consequence of alcohol use additionally elevated.
As “Kommersant” notes, the Ministry of Well being attributes the rise in these circumstances to the coronavirus pandemic. The division believes that the reason being the “stress from the pandemic”, in addition to the truth that inflation is outpacing the rise in excise taxes on alcohol.
Additionally on the finish of 2023, nevertheless, the federal government permitted a technique to cut back alcohol consumption by 2030, which plans an bold discount in indicators – from 8.9 liters of laborious alcohol by 2023 to 7.8 liters by 2030. Nonetheless, the ministry doesn’t present the statistics for 2023 – the primary utterly navy 12 months in Russia, admitting, nevertheless, that within the final two years – 2022 and 2023, the pattern was reversed and went up.
“Kommersant” explicitly notes that in 2022, with the start of the so-called “particular navy operation” there was an especially sharp soar in anxiousness among the many inhabitants of Russia, reaching a report 70%, marking the degrees of the 90s of the final century.