FLUCTUANT QUANTITY OF THE ALCOHOL PSYCHOSES. REPORT 1. EVERY DAY LIFE FACTORS
<i>The factors influencing the fluctuant quantity of the alcohol psychoses were analyzed. The source for the information was the daily and monthly reports of the emergency ambulance station in Moscow through 1982</i>-<i>2007 serving total amount of 109839 cases of psychoses. Before the beginning of anti-alcohol campaign the biweekly autocorrelation revealed, this was perfectly explained by the biweekly salary paying, and the peak of the psychoses was 9</i>-<i>13 days late after the salary cashing. In the years 2000 the recurrent waves of probably the same nature became monthly. There was another wave of the psychoses in January having its maximum on the 5 </i>- 7 <i>of January followed by the rapid decrease in February. In 1984 </i>-<i>1985 the level of the alcohol psychoses circa 7</i>-<i>8 of January was 2.1 times higher then such level of December, in 1990</i>-<i>1991 it was 6.8 times higher, and in 2000</i>-<i>2003 it was 2.8 times higher. Coefficient of the variations in the daily levels of psychoses in 1980-s and 1990-s was 41</i>-<i>44%, yet in 2000-s it decreased to 30% and the weekly fluctuations were gone, probably due to the loss of the social limitations of drinking on 2000-s. The autocorrelation of schizophrenic psychotic patients sewing had weekly pattern with its peak on Monday. No correlation was found for the patients with the organic or senile disorders.</i>