In Russia the average life expectancy of a male is 58 years, because they drink so much. When I think about that I think about all the shakes, puking, and hangovers that would go with it. I’m an admitted alcoholic myself. I’m on the wagon, though. It’s been five years. I’m very near 63 years old so I have the average Russian male beaten as far as life expectancy goes.
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I came across this today
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I don’t know about the veracity of this statistic, but if the Russians are drinking enough to cut their lives short, they are getting drunk way more than 27 times a year. I used to get drunk far more than 27 times a year. This one psychiatrist told me once that in America ten percent of the drinkers drink 90% of the alcohol. Alcoholics can drink huge amounts of alcohol. I used to drink over thirty beers in a day if I had the money and the time.
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I checked this male life expectancy in Russia, it is actually 68, not 58. In Russia people can buy hard liquor at grocery stores which may contribute to the low life expectancy. In Finland the male life expectancy is 79.
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This video explains a lot about why alcoholism is so commonplace in russia, and it’s very disturbing
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Russian people have bears for pets, have vodka for blood and all own dashcams.
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It is a good video highlighting that poor and desperate people end up using these drugs to live with their environment.
It mentions that anti-depressants make life liveable in the same scenario.
Huxley alludes to it in Brave New World when it sees the whole society dependent on drugs.
How about improving a life in such that someone doesn’t need to depend upon such drugs be it alcohol, opiates, cannabis or anti-depressants?
Russia also has a problem with fake vodka that sends people yellow as it totally messes their kidneys up. Poor people drink it.
Everybody wants to die healthy. Every People have a different approach to life and death.
People in Russia may also smoke a lot of tobacco because it is much less expensive there, and we know that smoking is one big reason why people die younger.
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Well we need to depend on antipsychotics, theres not much we can do for ourselves otherwise
I have seen many posters of USSR
against alcoholism and I have read
documents of USSR too.
@san_pedro you have no right to tell a mod to delete someone else’s thread.
different rules, for different people,
I rest my case
I live in Ex-Soviet union country, our situation is getting better than Russia’s but there are a lot of problems. I believe in Russia is still brewing moonshine as my father did. Also, In Russia you can buy 100ml vodka in a plastic yogurt jar. Also lack of entertainment in rutal areas is real, like said in the meme “there is nothing to do here besides drinking”. Also social interactions are made with drinking alcohol. People say Australians drink a lot?!? You must be kidding, maybe the data comes from bars and pubs mainly and buying alcohol from a store is not counted in. Also eastern Europe has a lot of beer in 2 litre plastic bottles and vodka infused cheap wine.
You’re totally right. I used to drink heavily and I could put down ridiculous amounts of alcohol at a time. Funny note: my favorite pdoc ever (because he always called me on my sh*t and never lied) told me that pdocs commonly double the amount of alcohol consumption a patient claims to drink, because they always lie. True dat.
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I haven’t been around today, pedro27. You had a thread on alcoholism that stayed open as well, so I don’t know what you are complaining about. It’s all about whether or not it is recovery oriented or whether or not is promoting alcohol use/abuse.