Substance dependence

Ivan Laskin passed away at the age of 48 years . The actor had health problems, several times he enrolled in various hospitals and on December 28, 2018, he was admitted to the Military Medical Academy. 

In 2012, the actor revealed publicly about his alcohol problem in "Direct Karbovsky". Laskin said he made this public because it was "the first step and the treatment started."

"We are so much at the mercy of Chance that Chance herself… takes the place of God," Pliny the Elder wrote 2,000 years ago. In difficult times, people's need for stability and consolation grows, as does the need to inform them of the dangers of addiction to games of chance and to substances - legal or not.

Nowhere else in Europe are police officers and unsuspecting passers-by subject to such a high frequency of random attacks.

Nowhere else in Europe is such tolerance displayed to small bands of vandals and delinquents, who are allowed to smash public and private property, to run riot wherever and whenever they want, for whatever reason.

US President Donald Trump pledged yesterday to overcome America's opioid addiction and announced the crisis is with a status of an emergency, threatening public health, Associated Press reported.

A total of 6,000 addicts have applied to the Alcohol and Drug Addiction Treatment Center (AMATEM) in the Aegean province of Manisa in the first five months of this year, whereas the figure was only 2,348 for the year of 2010, the center's head doctor, Aslıhan Eslek, told daily Cumhuriyet on Aug. 13.

The New Zealand Medical Association has called for a ban on the sale of alcohol in supermarkets, the Guardian said.

In our time we see new trends that create new opportunities. “Green” ecological hotels, luxurious hotels for those that can…afford them etc. According to mr. Parsalis, CEO of Marketing Greece, it is about time for Greece to create her own marketing branding based on the unique experiences that the country can offer.

Two tons of bottled bootleg alcohol have been seized in an operation against illegal alcoholic drink makers in the northwestern province of Tekirda?, in the latest development in Turkey's bootleg alcohol crisis that has left dozens dead.

A recent report over the use of drugs in Turkey prepared by the main opposition Republican People?s Party (CHP) has studied the situation of drug addicts in the country.

Latest data on alchohol addiction from the Montenegrin Ministry of Health on Wednesday showed 30,000 registered alcoholics in the country, about 5 per cent of the total population. Around 120,000 people in total were affected by alcohol abuse, the ministry noted.