Info on Alcoholism

Examples of countries where alcohol comes in flagrant contradiction with all the people's traditions, across thousands of history, all lifestyles! But let's look at Europe.
The entire southern Europe - Italy, France, Spain - traditional areas of winemaking. Reasonably assume that everything produced is consumed ... But there are no stereotypes, such as the following: «The French - complete alcoholic, barely moving from vinischa». The reputation of French known as lovers, but not as alcoholics.
But after World War II the French have had to seriously take action against alcoholism. In the late 1940's in France went off birth control. The so-called post-war baby boom. The French Government has strongly supported its citizens. The coalition Government in 1946 proposed the slogan: «France a million Dadim sturdy child!»
All wonderful, but the percentage of disabled of congenital genetic, physical and mental ugly creatures of this «million» surpassed all imaginable and unimaginable rates. The cause was easy to find: from the most tender years, when in other countries, little girls drink kefir or kvass, French drank dry wine. «Prospirtovannye» since childhood girls to marry the same «prospirtovannyh», so more and continue «capable» of young people. Pili are not strong drinks and grape wine.
Young people sometimes in detail inquire what snack combined with what variety of wine, and at what time of day to drink a variety of wines, with cheese or with any fruit. They contemptuously referred to the inelegant, ill residents of Northern Europe, who did not know these details. But urodtsy is born from them.
How to deal with a national disaster? In fact, that almost a fifth of the «million sturdy child» came into the world of genetically inferior?
Then the government went into the crucial measure of legitimacy of a dispute so far: adolescent girls France, from 14 to 16 years old, conducted through hospitals, in which the victim's drunken conception. «Hospitals» - so called because in those establishments was no treated. They just kept small creatures, which was not destined to never go in a big world.
The reaction of the girls was different, for the most part, very acute. Up to hysterics, attacks of depression, suicide attempts. But was the effect! The number of drunken zachaty has decreased dramatically.
Interestingly, in Northern Europe, there stereotypical images associated with drunkenness. This poetic name of beer in England: «John - barleycorn», and the appearance of traditional pivnushki-pub.
A recent British Royal Medical College study showed that British women spivayutsya. According to newly published report by doctors at the reception were increasingly came a woman with incurable liver disease. Young women aged 20 to 30 years are increasingly diagnosed cirrhosis of the liver (the last stage of decomposition) and other incurable diseases, which were acquired as a result of alcohol abuse. In Britain, one in five women vypivaet a potentially dangerous level. In addition, the changing style of drink. British women were drinking in high doses, to the detriment not only health but also affects social behavior.
And in America, a «alcoholic image» there! This - salun that translated means innocent «Salon». The classic image of the same American filmmaking: rickety halupy Wild West, colored shirts, neck scarves, Colt revolvers, Mustang, loose roads, and among all this ugliness - log structure with a bright sign «SALOON».
In America relates «alcoholic» associative number: salun, whiskey, Hemingway, «Dajkiri», Scott Fitzgerald, «a dual whiskey - not dilute», club alcoholics anonymous.
According to the American Psychiatric Association in the USA 13,8% of adults abused alcohol or suffered from alcoholism. In the ten years 46 000 Americans died in Vietnam. During the same period, 250 000 people have died in the U.S. at the hands of drunken drivers.
In addition, another U.S. alcoholics different sex ratio compared with other countries. Worldwide, the percentage of women alkogolichek does not exceed 5-10% of alcoholics. In the U.S. alkogolichek - 20% of the total. A kind of emancipation!
In fact, drunk alcoholic strife. In the Soviet Union and modern Russia alcoholics feel part of those in the U.S. ever in alcoholics did not enroll. Indeed, some enrolled in this malopochtenny squad in Russia - have not yet alcoholics from a medical point of view: alcohol has not yet become part of their biochemistry. In the U.S., such attributed to the «domestic drunkard», and the statistics did not include alcohol would be. So 7 million alcoholics USA about the same as 10 million in Russia.
But America in the eyes of the world much drinking country and has a bad reputation? Not at all, on the contrary - the Americans in the eyes of neighbors efficiency, enterprising, entrepreneurial and friendly ( «chi-and-out!»).
Antialkogol'naja campaign in the USSR seems to us an incredible milestone importance. But it is in the whole «restructuring», a lot of sham.
But in Europe all very seriously. It is not about the campaign. Health ministers of 25 European Union agreed on the first concrete steps to prevent excessive consumption of alcohol among Europeans.
According to official figures, ES from the effects of alcohol die every year nearly 200 thousand people.
According to the «EuroNews», a meeting took place shortly after the promulgation of the draft European strategy to combat alcohol abuse. In particular, the meeting decided to involve the cooperation of producers of alcohol - he ordered the review related to advertising their products.
In France it is being done: on bottles of alcohol required to post a warning about dangers of alcohol for pregnant women. Now the icon depicting the future mother, necessarily must appear on all bottles sold in France and banks with alcohol.