Fri Nov 7, 2008
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - Russia should revive the Soviet-era practice of compulsory treatment for alcoholics, the interior minister said Friday.
Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev told President Dmitry Medvedev that there were 253,000 alcoholics registered with police but that the actual number must be higher.
"The real picture is much worse," he told Medvedev at a meeting of law enforcement agencies in St. Petersburg. http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-Russia/idUSTRE4A65WJ20081107