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Russian youth struggle with drink and drug abuse - 27 Feb 08

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It's estimated around one hundred and twenty thousand Russians die each year from drug and alcohol abuse. Now Dmitry Medvedev - Vladimir Putin's likely successor - has promised to tackle the problem if he's elected president on March 2nd.

But under Putin, Russia's substance abuse victims have been largely ignored by an administration more keen on promoting its social achievements.

In the third of our series on the State of Russia, Jonah Hull reports from the city of Perm in the Ural Mountains about the problem claiming so many young lives.

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  • @Pavedich

    alcohol is a drug too just a legal drug like tobacco

    everything who change your awareness or can make you addicted is a drug!

  • The average Russian (including men, women, and kids) drinks 18 L of alcohol/year, the equivalent of 60 bottles of vodka. 30,000 people die of poisoning/yr, and 8,000 die from drunk driving. And having been friends w Russian exchange students, I've seen this dangerous drinking 1st hand. To the indignant commenters: if you are not affected, you are lucky, but there is clearly a problem.

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  • @mattsnow81

    I don't think that the U.S. demonized them for "telling the truth", they showed graphic videos of americans being decapitated by muslim fanatics, in particular Nick Berg, that caused outrage from americans.

  • @parkerboggs89 Yep and that's obviously not a recipe for success is it? Russia is proof that it's not multi-culturalism that fucks things up but corrupt governments and poverty in general - read a book, you might learn something.

  • @Ulansananelan

    games as well? just asking

  • @AAAbort NOTHING LIKE 5 TABS OF LSD TO WAKE YOU UP IN THE MORNING

  • in soviet russia drug do you

  • I love Al jazeera, they tell the truth, that's why the US demonized them when they started the Iraq war

  • @Pavedich

    maby the people with the most drug problems missed class..

  • @parkerboggs89 well that makes everything go away. What a good country.

    An example for all white nations.

    Prick.

  • @MrRomanKomarov hahah

    Originality.

    You dont have it.

  • at least they live in a almost all white country

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