“The leaders in mortality due to alcohol are the regions of the Far East. For this reason, the mortality rate in the Chukotka Autonomous Region amounted to almost 13 people per 10 thousand people, ”the report said.
It is clarified that every ninth death in Chukotka in 2018 was caused by exposure to alcohol.
The second place in Russia in the number of deaths from alcohol consumption is held by the Magadan region. Here, the mortality rate was ten people per 10 thousand inhabitants of the region.
Next are the Ivanovo and Novgorod regions (about nine dead).
Earlier, the Russian Ministry of Health reported that the number of patients with alcoholism decreased from 2.08 million in 2008 to 1.3 million in 2017.
In August, RT, based on data from the Ministry of Health for 2018, compiled a ranking of the leading regions by the number of patients with alcohol dependence.