New Approaches to the Treatment of Alcoholism and Drug Dependency

Alcoholism in the Soviet Union

“…Two weeks later in Leningrad, Dr Synyevitch, a psychiatrist who specializes in alcoholism, distinguished between habitual drinking (based on psychological motives) and the disease of alcoholism (based on biological factors). It is clear that some Soviet scientists are showing increased interest in biological factors in aetiology and pharmacological treatments of alcoholism (Moskalenko et al, 1990). …”