Monografiya posvyashchena roli alkogol"nogo faktora v etiologii suitsidal"nogo povedeniya v Belarusi. Nastoyashchaya rabota yavlyaetsya pervym sistematizirovannym issledovaniem svyazi mezhdu alkogolem i suitsidami v Belarusi. S pomoshch"yu sovremennykh metodov statisticheskogo analiza pokazano, chto ostraya i khronicheskaya alkogol"naya intoksikatsiya yavlyaetsya faktorom riska suitsida. Krome togo, ustanovleno, chto alkogol" yavlyaetsya glavnoy prichinoy rezkikh kolebaniy urovnya suitsidov, kotorye otmechalis" v Belarusi na protyazhenii poslednikh desyatiletiy. Monografiya adresovana sotsiologam, demografam, spetsialistam v oblasti sotsial"noy politiki i zdravookhraneniya.