!!!Alkoholismus

Alcoholism: Drinking alcohol is a widespread and, for the most part, 
socially accepted custom. It is also, in terms of the number of 
victims, the most dangerous drug available. - Alcoholism is a disease; 
Austria has a large proportion of alcohol dependency, i.e. a high 
number of "addicts" in the medical sense of the term. Even much larger 
is the number of persons who are not alcoholics in the narrow sense of 
the term but whose intake of alcoholic beverages amounts to abuse. A 
particular source of concern is the rapid increase in alcohol abuse on 
the part of juveniles: about 14% of Austrians below the age of 20 is 
considered to be at risk. Approx. 5% of Austrians are considered 
alcoholics. With an average of 11 litres of pure alcohol consumption 
per capita per annum (1998), Austria has the third highest alcohol 
consumption of the EU (behind Luxembourg and France). In 1955 annual 
consumption amounted to 4.5 litres and it rose particularly in the 
1970s. There are a number of rehabilitation centres for alcoholics in 
Austria, including one at Vienna-Kalksburg (founded in 1961).


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