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Alcohol use and addiction services in Ukraine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Andriy V. Samokhvalov ,
Valerii S. Pidkorytov ,
Igor V. Linskiy ,
Oleksandr I. Minko ,
Oleksii O. Minko ,
Jürgen Rehm  and
Svetlana Popova
Andriy V. Samokhvalov
Affiliation:
Public Health and Regulatory Policies, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada
Valerii S. Pidkorytov
Affiliation:
Institute of Neurology, Psychiatry and Narcology of the Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkiv, Ukraine
Igor V. Linskiy
Affiliation:
Institute of Neurology, Psychiatry and Narcology of the Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkiv, Ukraine
Oleksandr I. Minko
Affiliation:
Institute of Neurology, Psychiatry and Narcology of the Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkiv, Ukraine
Oleksii O. Minko
Affiliation:
Institute of Neurology, Psychiatry and Narcology of the Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkiv, Ukraine
Jürgen Rehm
Affiliation:
Public Health and Regulatory Policies, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada
Svetlana Popova
Affiliation:
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
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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).

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Thematic Papers - Services in the Former Soviet Union
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International Psychiatry , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , January 2009 , pp. 5 - 7
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