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Beverage-Specific Alcohol Sale and Suicide in Russia

Razvodovsky, Y.E.·2009·Crisis
DOI 10.1027/0227-5910.30.4.186
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Background: The high suicide rate in Russia and its profound fluctuation over the past decades have attracted considerable interest. There is growing evidence that beverage preference and binge-drinking patterns, i.e., excessive consumption of strong spirits, results in a quicker and deeper level of intoxication, which increases the propensity for the alcohol-related suicide. In line with this evidence, we assumed that higher levels of vodka consumption, in conjunction with binge-drinking patterns, would result in a close, aggregate-level association between vodka sales and suicide in Russia. Aims and Methods: To test this hypothesis, trends in beverage-specific alcohol sales per capita and suicide rates from 1970 to 2005 in Russia were analyzed employing ARIMA time-series analysis. Results: The results of the time-series analysis suggested that a 1 liter increase in overall alcohol sales would result in a 4% increase in the male suicide rate and a 2.8% increase in the female suicide rate; a 1 liter increase in vodka sales would increase the suicide rate by 9.3% for men and by 6% for women. Conclusions: This study replicates previous findings from other settings, which suggest that suicide rates tend to be more responsive to changes in distilled spirits consumption per capita than to the total level of alcohol consumption. Assuming that drinking spirits is usually associated with intoxication episodes, these findings provide additional evidence that the drinking pattern is an important determinant in the relationship between alcohol and suicide. The outcomes of this study also provide support for the hypothesis that suicide and alcohol are closely connected in cultures where an intoxication-oriented drinking pattern prevails and adds to the growing body of evidence that alcohol plays a crucial role in the fluctuation in suicide mortality rates in Russia during recent decades.

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  • Restrictions on common means of suicide, such as detoxifying domestic gas, reducing alcoholic spirits availability, and state firearm restrictions, have been linked to changes in suicide rates.

    “Changes in suicide rates have also been attributed to restriction of common means of suicide, such as detoxification of domestic gas (i.e., the reduction and eventual elimination of the carbon monoxide content of gas owing to a switch to natural gas) in the United Kingdom, starting in the 1960s,6 decreased availability of alcoholic spirits in Russia,7 and state restrictions of firearms in the”

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Authors
Razvodovsky, Y. E.
Affiliations
Grodno State Medical University (BY)
Corresponding author
Razvodovsky, Y.E.
ORCID
Razvodovsky, Y.E.
Venue
Crisis
Publisher
Hogrefe Publishing Group
Published
2009-07
Volume
30
Issue
4
Pages
186-191
ISSN
  • 0227-5910 (ISSN-L)
  • 2151-2396
DOI
10.1027/0227-5910.30.4.186
OpenAlex
W1998193922
Cited by
41
References
45
Citations by year
2025: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 4 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 4 · 2012: 2
FWCI
4.60
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Crisis (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse
Keywords
alcohol-related suicide, binge drinking, alcoholic beverages, suicide rates, drinking patterns, poisoning, sex differences in suicide, Russia
MeSH terms
Suicide Prevention, Adult, Alcohol Drinking, Alcoholic Beverages, Alcoholic Intoxication, Cause of Death, Commerce, Female, Health Policy, Humans, Male, Risk Factors, Russia, Social Change, Suicide, Multivariate Analysis, Age Distribution, Sex Distribution, International Classification of Diseases

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