Alcohol use and addiction services in Ukraine Journal Articles

abstract

• Ukraine, with a population of 46.2 million, is the second largest country in Europe, with an area of 603 700 km2. 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).

authors

• Samokhvalov, Andriy
• Pidkorytov, Valerii S
• Linskiy, Igor V
• Minko, Oleksandr I
• Minko, Oleksii O
• Rehm, Jürgen
• Popova, Svetlana

status

• published 

publication date

• January 2009

published in

• BJPsych International  Journal

keywords

• 3 Good Health and Well Being
• 32 Biomedical and Clinical Sciences
• 50 Philosophy and Religious Studies
• 5004 Religious Studies
• Alcoholism, Alcohol Use and Health
• Brain Disorders
• Substance Misuse

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1192/s1749367600000205

start page

• 5

end page

• 7

volume

• 6

issue

• 1