Alcoholism and Arctic Indigenous Peoples

[DARPA]

Alcoholism is a disease that affects all nationalities, but the biggest shock it inflicts on the small peoples of the North. In my opinion, in the Magadan region is the main threat to the indigenous people of the region since the collapse of the USSR.
That alcohol is now killing people, breaks fate leaves children orphaned. Let's try to look into the matter to see what can and must be done now to minimize this threat.
The photo was taken at the central square of the village Even, Magadan region, which is the center of North Even national region.
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Science suggests there is a link between diet and a tendency to alcoholism among representatives of indigenous peoples of the North (Indigenous Peoples). Physiology is manifested in the rapid formation of alcohol dependence, and says the World Health Organization in the indigenous peoples in the body there are no enzymes that break down alcohol. In this connection, the alcohol has a strong destructive effect on the brain and quickly generates alcohol dependence.

Over the millennia, living in the Far North indigenous peoples have formed protein-lipid type of food, this is when they eat a lot of meat and lots of fat. This type of food has developed the capacity for rapid healing of wounds, the best reaction to antibiotics, as well as resistance to cancer. But the lack of for centuries in the diet of carbohydrates according to scientists and leads to rapid emergence of alcohol dependence.

According to the Siberian Branch of the Academy of Medical Sciences, the death rate from alcohol in more than a similar indigenous peoples from the natives of central Russia and southern territories of 15-20 times.

That's about as science sees the problem. From this perspective, it is hard not to agree, but in my opinion the problem is much deeper and more natural predisposition except the first place is the socio-economic component. When all the indigenous peoples of the USSR were provided with jobs related to their age-old way of life, were collective and state farms which were grown and bred deer hunted aquatic resources and marine animals, collected all sorts of herbs, people engaged in hunting, as the state provided them with the necessary resources and redeem received trophies. People were busy with their talents and abilities were in demand, and just stupidly time drinking was not. And the most interesting, the industry was profitable and profitable.

But after the collapse of the Soviet state and local authorities was not up to the indigenous peoples, state and collective farms collapsed, herds of deer allowed under the knife. People lost their jobs, left to themselves. And now after 20 years, they sit in the villages receive benefits, pensions that money spent on drinks for a few days.
The village Even, near Navy Pier.
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To distract people from drinking in the first place they need to work, do what he likes, enable interesting rest. People are willing to change yourself and your life, you only need to help them. And because it can be done now, if you can not work with build in small settlements to all residents of sports fields, play areas. After all, there really is that there's nothing at all. What can we say about the locals, if we're on the third day of his stay in the village Evensk themselves began to drink. That's really all the fun is to go through the main street to the Sea of ​​Okhotsk to leave the stones at him. More than anything we had not found it.


But the situation can be corrected, even now. Imagine we are in the fishing team of about 100 km from the village on the river Evensk Gizhiga, which can be reached only in a jeep because of the lack of roads as such (circle tundra and wetlands). In the evening of the darkness comes a man with a boy 7-8 years. We invite them to drink tea, and when he well-read quietly tell ohrenevayu. So it turns out that they live in the village of Upper guy that from our place in about 100 km, nationality Koryak. Go walking in Even since dad wants his son to spend the summer in a children's camp in the hot mineral springs Tavatum treated her there and improve their health. Together nearly 200 km on foot, with only a knife, salt, cup, spoon, pot fishing line with a hook so.

Well of course we immediately asked, what about meeting with a bear is not terrible? He said that if the bear begins to show interest in them, he kindles a small fire and puts back the raw herb, smoke always scares the beast. We asked, and if the smoke does not scare the bear and go on the attack? The answer is the way we have also killed literally something like "it is time to go to the top people."

And now the most important thing for which I remembered this meeting, we asked him to drink beer or vodka on his choice, so he refused saying that the son of the camp is to take away from sin and zasobiralas asked to translate them into the boat to the other side of the river.

It turns out you can then unlock the circle, because people drink from the hopelessness, and when they have a purpose in this life, have a job, a place where you can spend your leisure time, then maybe the next generation of indigenous peoples will not be drinking and will take a proactive stance on all aspects of our life is not easy !!!