1. By Takuya Iiyama And Koichiro Gaetdgens
Alcoholism
By Takuya Iiyama
And
Koichiro Gaetdgens

2. Contents What is alcoholism? Public Policy Introduction Russia
Decision Maker
Manner of Consultation
Stakeholder
Extra info

3. What is alcoholism?
a primary, chronic disease, with genetic , psychological, and environmental factors influencing its development and manifestation
This means due to drinking too much alcohol, people cannot stop easily anymore. It is kind of poisoning.

4. Map of Alcohol Consumption (worldwide)

5. Alcoholism in Russia
At beginning, Russia had quite high consumption rates for drinking alcohol
15.76 liters per year, 4th highest volume in Europe
Vodka (about 40 levels) is the most famous alcohol in Russia.

6. 1985 Anti-Alcohol Campaign
This was initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev
Limited the shops for alcohols
Closing many vodka distilleries and wine vineyards
Before 2 o'clock afternoon, restaurants were not allowed to sell alcohol.
Increased the price of alcohol

7. How many people in Russia actually support this campaign?

8. Who is making decisions?
Mikhail Gorbachev:
General Secretary of USSR
Launched this campaign first
Decided all decisions at last such as price  of alcohol (ex: increase by 25%)
Government of Russia:
Supported Mikhail Gorbachev
Suggested the plans
*Gorbachev's wife, Raisa, his daughter, Mikhailovna Virginskaya, and two members from Politburo also took major roles to convince him to build this campaign.

9. Manner of Consultation
Replacement of previous legislation:
Anti-alcohol campaign in 1980 (by Leonid Brezhnev)
Anti-alcohol campaign in (by Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko)
Anti-alcohol campaign in 1985

10. Who had been affected?
The affected people are basically the　 consumers the average consumption of alcohol was about 18 liter pure alcohol. To let imagine easier, it is about 360 liters of beer
Through many counter plans the Gorbachev Regime made between 1985 and 1990 it is told that a million people were saved.

11. Change from “before 1985” to “1985”

12. Why was this failure?
Because government banned too many things at same time, citizens in Russia started to create secret bar that not many people could notice easily.
It was fine until 1987, but after 1987, people started to notice that, so alcohol consumption rate went up instead.

13. Our Opinion
Takuya: I think it is good thing to try citizens to stop drinking alcohol too much because it really affects to their body heavily, but banning alcohol too much suddenly is not the best idea. The government must think more, and little by little, they can ban such as at first, they can only higher prices of alcohol such as by 10%. Then, after that if citizens still drink too much, they can start to close bars. So, I think government did too much.
Koichiro: My opinion is to agree with it. Being healthy is the most important thing, so Russia should more stronger support this campaign

14. QUESTION TIME!!
What do you think about this campaign? Agree? Disagree?
Why do you think people might drink alcohol too much?

15. Bibliography
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Polls in Russia – backing Vladimir Putin and banning alcohol, telegraph. September, Retrieved on December 6th, 2012 from
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