The role of a doctor in the fight against alcoholism

The participation of the medical masses in the anti-alcohol movement -with few exceptions -is so weak and unorganized that it forces them to fix attention on themselves, because who else but a doctor should be the initiator and active participant in the fight against the green snake and the conductor of the ideas of sobriety. This is required by the biosocial significance of the problem of the anti-alcohol movement, especially now-during the period of reconstructive growth of our national economy and continuous collectivization. A meeting of doctors-members of the first plenum of the All-Union Council of Anti-Alcohol Societies in the USSR —recognized the need to organize a medical section at the All-Union Anti-Alcohol Congress and links with medical congresses in order to attract the medical masses to the fight against drug addiction). In addition, it was decided to put in the general press the question of the role of the doctor in the fight against alcohol, as well as about the abstinence of doctors in general and especially narcologists, psychiatrists, etc.