Paul Goble
Staunton, April 16 – Nearly 56 of every 100,000 residents of the Russian Federation were diagnosed as alcoholics or suffering from alcohol-induced psychosis last year, the highest level since 2015, and a 30 percent rise from 2024, strongly suggesting that it is related to the impact of Putin’s war in Ukraine and Russia’s current economic problems, Important Stories says.
Last year’s dramatic rise reverses the declines between 2010 and 2021 when these alcoholism figures fell by nearly half from 100,000 to 53,000 for the Russian population as a whole, figures from the health ministry and private clinics show (storage.googleapis.com/istories/news/2026/04/16/zabolevaemost-rossiyan-alkogolizmom-i-alkogolnim-psikhozom-virosla-na-tret/index.html, ru.themoscowtimes.com/2024/01/15/v-rossii-uvelichilos-chislo-alkogolikov-na-fone-voini-v-ukraine-a118376 and ru.themoscowtimes.com/2024/06/24/v-moskve-zafiksirovali-vzrivnoi-rost-chisla-bolnih-alkogolizmom-a134827).
Despite Putin’s calls for sobriety, the sales of hard liquor including vodka but not including moonshine or samogon as Russians call it rose to 8.5 liters per person per year, high enough to have a major impact on health (ru.themoscowtimes.com/2025/03/31/rossiyane-ustanovili-8-letnii-rekord-po-potrebleniyu-krepkogo-alkogolya-a159666).
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