According to her, the Ministry of Health is fighting alcohol abuse, but such "radical" initiatives should be carefully discussed so that they are not harmed.

"We will definitely learn this, but to us until such a proposal did not go," RIA Novosti quotes Skvortsov.

Earlier, State Duma deputy Vitaly Milonov sent Skvortsova a letter proposing to introduce a dry law in Russia. The psychiatrist and narcologist Alexander Kovtun commented on the initiative in an interview with the NSO.