Samokhvalov Andriy V, Pidkorytov Valerii S, Linskiy Igor V, Minko Oleksandr I, Minko Oleksii O, Rehm Jürgen, Popova Svetlana
Public Health and Regulatory Policies, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada.
Institute of Neurology, Psychiatry and Narcology of the Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, Kharkiv, Ukraine.
Int Psychiatry. 2009 Jan 1;6(1):5-7. eCollection 2009 Jan.
Ukraine, with a population of 46.2 million, is the second largest country in Europe, with an area of 603 700 km. It is still recovering from the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, following the Soviet stagnation era (since the mid-1960s) and perestroika (from 1986), as well as the 1998 Russian financial crisis and Ukraine's 2004 Orange Revolution. These events have resulted in high levels of socio-economic disparity, political instability and a degraded healthcare infrastructure. These issues, in addition to traditionally high levels of alcohol consumption, have made binge drinking and alcoholism, among other addictions, major problems in Ukrainian society (Voloshin , 2003).
乌克兰人口为4620万，是欧洲第二大国，面积603700平方公里。自1991年苏联解体后，它一直在复苏，此前经历了苏联停滞时代（自20世纪60年代中期起）、改革时期（1986年起）、1998年俄罗斯金融危机以及2004年乌克兰橙色革命。这些事件导致了高度的社会经济差距、政治不稳定以及医疗基础设施的退化。除了传统上的高酒精消费量外，这些问题使得暴饮和酗酒以及其他成瘾问题成为乌克兰社会的主要问题（沃洛申，2003年）。
