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Journal of Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Research | Volume 3

November 26-27, 2018 | Dubai, UAE

Spine and Spine Disorders

Addiction Research and Therapy

3rd International Conference on

International Conference on

Joint Event

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Alcoholism and Alcohol Psychosis trends in Russia

Yury Evgeny Razvodovsky

International Academy of Sobriety, Russia

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lcoholism (alcohol dependence) is one of the most

common Psychiatric Disorders inmany European countries.

Russia has one of the highest incidences of alcoholism and

alcohol psychosis in Europe, which may be explained by high

overall population drinking and prevalence of irregular heavy

drinking of vodka. Some estimates suggest that a total number

of alcoholics (alcohol-dependent individuals) in the late-Soviet

Russiawere ranging between 23 and 28million. Currently, there

are approximately 3million alcoholics in Russia, and the number

of heavy drinkers is three to four times that number. This study

examines the phenomenon of high alcohol dependence and

alcohol psychoses rate in Russia.

Aims:

To estimate the aggregate level effect of alcohol

consumption on the alcoholism/alcohol psychoses incidence

rates in the Russian Federation.

Method:

Trends in alcoholism/alcohol psychoses incidence

rates and alcohol consumption per capita from 1970 to 2015

were analyzed employing an ARIMA (Autoregressive Integrated

Moving Average) analysis.

Results:

Alcohol consumption per capita is a statistically

significant factor associated with alcohol psychoses incidence

rate, implying that a 1-l increase in per capita alcohol

consumption is associated with an increase in the alcoholic

psychoses incidence rate by 17.1%.

Conclusion:

According to the results of present study there was

a positive and statistically significant effect of per capita alcohol

consumption on alcohol psychoses incidence rate in Russia.

These findings suggest that the alcohol psychoses incidence rate

is a good proxy for population drinking. The outcomes of this

study also indicate, that the ratio in alcohol psychoses incidence

rate to alcohol dependence incidence rate is considered tobe an

indicator of the efficiency of narcological service regarding early

diagnosing and treatment for the alcohol dependence. The

higher this ratio, the bigger is the number of alcohol-dependent

individuals getting into doctor’s eyeshot at advanced stages of

the disease. The outcomes also provide indirect support for

the hypothesis that the dramatic fluctuations in the alcohol

psychoses incidence rate in Russia during the last decades were

related to the availability/affordability of alcohol.

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yury_razvodovsky@mail.ru