About the Professor
Prof. Dr. Igor Linsky is the director of the Institute of Neurology, Psychiatry and Narcology of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, the oldest neuropsychiatric institution in the country. The institute has been researching the problem of harm caused by people with addictions to others in their immediate environment for many years.
This presentation shares the results of some studies researching harm to others due to alcohol addiction and will focus on how an addicted person influences his or her micro-social environment and what changes occur in this environment under this influence.
We will be covering the following in this lecture:
- Assessment of the scale of “harm to others” in Ukrainian society, as well as gender and age characteristics of this harm.
- Manifestations of the influence of drinkers on adult representatives of their microsocial environment and children.
- Influence of drinkers on affective and alcoholic statuses of representatives of their microsocial environment, as well as on their alcohol preferences and quality of life.
- Limits of problematic alcohol use from the point of view of practically healthy respondents and the epidemiological significance of these limits.
- Complex program of prevention of harmful consequences of alcoholization of problem drinkers for their microsocial environment
Note to sources:
Unless otherwise noted, graphs, tables and results are from the Professor and his study group as well as GENAHTO.
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Course Includes
- 3 Lessons
- 2 Quizzes
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