For the primary time in additional than a decade, in 2022, the variety of registered alcoholics elevated in Russia, based on knowledge printed 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 recognized circumstances of alcohol dependence and alcohol psychosis decreased virtually thrice – 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 individuals 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 yr the variety of Russians with alcohol dependence syndrome in rural areas elevated by 7%, the mortality price amongst rural residents because 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, nonetheless, the federal government authorised a method to scale back alcohol consumption by 2030, which plans an formidable discount in indicators – from 8.9 liters of exhausting alcohol by 2023 to 7.8 liters by 2030. Nonetheless, the ministry doesn’t present the statistics for 2023 – the primary fully army yr in Russia, admitting, nonetheless, that within the final two years – 2022 and 2023, the development was reversed and went up.
“Kommersant” explicitly notes that in 2022, with the start of the so-called “particular army operation” there was a particularly sharp leap in nervousness among the many inhabitants of Russia, reaching a report 70%, marking the degrees of the 90s of the final century.
