Least of all people in Russia are sick in the Kabardino-Balkarian and Chechen republics. Most patients are observed in the Altai Territory, St. Petersburg and Karelia.

“Patients per 100 thousand of the corresponding population were registered: Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (95799.2), Chechen Republic (96303.6), Kursk Region (116563.9),” RIA Novosti quotes the data in the digest.

In July, the chief freelance psychiatrist-narcologist of the Ministry of Health of Russia, Yevgeny Bryun, proposed selling alcoholic beverages exclusively at specialized retail outlets far from residential areas.