n falls, employees are often absent, and this often lead to them being demoted or even fired. Though it seems to be most common in lower sectors of society, Gladkov points out thatpeople in all walks of Soviet culture drink to excess (103). The author of one article describes the scene at a Moscow hotel dining room. He compares the number of drinks to just as many as at American college fraternity dances (MacDuffie 34). He observed that there were more drunks in Moscow itself than other parts of the country. There is no mention made of AA or any such rehabilitation programs, but of Turkish bath treatments which are one-night compulsory treatments for drunkards that are arrested in public. The Soviet Ministry of health, however, is trying to help remedy toe problem by implementing a number of programs, including demonstrations of the harmful consequences of Alcohol for the human organism (Field 107). Alcoholism is a problem all over the world in different cultures. Even in cultures, like the Amish, where Americans probably assume that it would not be an issue. People become alcoholics for social and cultural reasons and possibly because of genetics. In all three cultures, the Alcoholism tends to run in families; many children of alcoholics end up alcoholics themselves. Usually these children of alcoholics grow up to marry alcoholics and create the same stressful factors they had in their childhood, passing on their alcoholic genes to their children....
