The number of women who have accessed alcohol has skyrocketed in recent decades.
A report by Radio Praha revealed a rapid increase in the number of women with alcohol problems in the Czech Republic.
On average, Czech women consume six liters of alcohol a year, and while in the 1980s there was one woman in ten male alcoholics, by 2021 the rate will be closer to four in one.
Liver disease associated with binge drinking has become the second leading cause of death among women between the ages of 20 and 54, largely as evidence that members of the weaker sex have been able to drink more freely after the regime change.
Many of the patients in the addiction hospital wards are highly educated, ambitious women who are committed to their work. They are under enormous pressure at work and in their private lives, and they often try to relieve their stress by drinking alcohol, explained Ondrej Sklenár, president of the Association of Czech Addicts.
