Drinking and Alcoholism as the Factors of the Decrease in Life Quality and Socio-Economic Growth in Belarus
The problem of alcohol abuse and alcoholism in the Republic of Belarus is considered. The author gives the short story of alcohol appearance. The main recent negative effects of alcoholism in Belarus were reviewed. The main alcoholism consequences are reduction of life expectancy, increasing the risk of accident and becoming the victim of a crime, the visceral disease formation causing full or partial loss of working ability, loss of skills, low social status, the degradation of moral and intellectual capacity.A. Bobrova pays attention to direct and indirect household cost.