| Autor: |
Samokhvalov AV; Public Health and Regulatory Policies, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada., Pidkorytov VS; Institute of Neurology, Psychiatry and Narcology of the Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkiv, Ukraine., Linskiy IV; Institute of Neurology, Psychiatry and Narcology of the Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkiv, Ukraine., Minko OI; Institute of Neurology, Psychiatry and Narcology of the Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkiv, Ukraine., Minko OO; Institute of Neurology, Psychiatry and Narcology of the Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkiv, Ukraine., Rehm J; Public Health and Regulatory Policies, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada., Popova S; Public Health and Regulatory Policies, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, 33 Russell Street, Room T510, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 2S1, email lana_popova@camh.net. |
| Abstrakt: |
Ukraine, with a population of 46.2 million, is the second largest country in Europe, with an area of 603 700 km 2 . It is still recovering from the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, following the Soviet stagnation era (since the mid-1960s) and perestroika (from 1986), as well as the 1998 Russian financial crisis and Ukraine's 2004 Orange Revolution. These events have resulted in high levels of socio-economic disparity, political instability and a degraded healthcare infrastructure. These issues, in addition to traditionally high levels of alcohol consumption, have made binge drinking and alcoholism, among other addictions, major problems in Ukrainian society (Voloshin et al , 2003). |
