WOMEN’S ALCOHOL ADDICTION IN THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA
WOMEN’S ALCOHOL ADDICTION IN THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA

Summary/Abstract: As an addiction, alcoholism presents a serious public health issue. For its progressive rise worldwide and underlying specificity and implications, alcoholism in women takes a serious note. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that in the recent period there were about 210 million people with alcoholism worldwide (4.1% of the population aged above 15 years); around 2 billion people worldwide consume alcohol and around 76.3 million have been diagnosed with alcohol abuse and addiction. Alcohol addiction is present in a significant portion of the adult population, around 3-5% in the developed countries, whereas hazardous and harmful alcohol consumption affects a much higher percentage of the general adult population, i.e. from 15% to 40%. Alcohol abuse has major influence on the overall public health. It generates an array of costs related to health protection, health insurance, enforcement of legal provisions, maintaining law and order, protection at work, and many other costs, both material and immaterial, having a negative impact on the functioning of families, and society’s socio-economic development in general.

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