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MOSCOW — A new study by an international team of public- health researchers documents the devastating impact of alcohol abuse on Russia — showing that drinking caused more than half of deaths among Russians ages 15 to 54 in the turbulent era after the Soviet collapse.
The 52 percent figure compares with estimates that less than 4 percent of deaths worldwide are caused by alcohol abuse, according to the study by Russian, British and French researchers published in today’s edition of the British medical journal The Lancet.
The Russian findings were based on a survey of almost 49,000 deaths between 1990 and 2001 among young adult and middle-aged Russians in three industrial towns.
