This is followed by the Nenets Autonomous Okrug (141.5), Penza (123.5), Sakhalin (116.6) and Magadan (116.1) regions.

Also, the Ministry of Health recorded a high level of morbidity in Yakutia (112.5 cases per 100 thousand population), Komi (105), Transbaikal (94.7) and Khabarovsk (93.8) territories and in the Oryol region (93.3).

The lowest level was recorded in Ingushetia (0.4), Chechnya (2.1), Dagestan (10.1), Krasnodar Territory (13) and St. Petersburg (13.7).

In addition, another republic of the North Caucasus - Karachay-Cherkessia (15.5 cases per 100 thousand population) - was included in the top ten regions with a low incidence of alcoholism.

A relatively low level is noted in the Stavropol Territory (19.7), the Astrakhan Region (20.3), Moscow (25.1) and in the Omsk Region (27.1).

In total, in 2019, 70.9 thousand people were registered for the first time in Russia with such problems. This is 5 thousand less than a year earlier.

Over the past 15 years, the incidence rate in the country as a whole has decreased three times. So, in 2005 it amounted to 147.4 cases per 100 thousand of the population, and in 2019 - 48.3.

As the narcologist, director of the Institute of Narcological Health of the Nation, Oleg Zykov, explained in an interview with RT, alcohol consumption in different territories of Russia can indeed be due to the characteristics of the regions, in particular climatic and religious. 

“It is clear that in the southern republics, especially those where Islam, a religion that involves control over the use of psychoactive substances, is ultimately showing the corresponding figures,” Zykov explained.

The regions of Russia with the highest prevalence of mental illness were previously named.