Sobering-up station

Sobering-up station

A sobering-up station ( _cs. Protialkoholní záchytná stanice, commonly known as "Záchytka"; _pl. Izba wytrzeźwień) is a medical facility in which intoxicated people can spend one night to become sober under medical control, in the Czech Republic, Russia and Poland. Those in need of more long-term treatment will be referred to a rehabilitation center.

Sobering-up stations were introduced in 1904 by Archangelskiy Fedor Sergeevich in Tula [http://tounb.tula.net/Tula/Person_zdrav/arhangelskiy.htm] . The first sobering-up station in Czechoslovakia was opened in 1951 by the psychiatrist Jaroslav Skála; [ [http://www.blisty.cz/art/28607.html British lists] ] its first patient was a Russian naval engineer. [ [http://www.blisty.cz/art/28607.html British lists] ] During its first 30 years of service, Prague's sobering-up station treated over 180,000 people. Other facilities in the country treated over 1,000,000 people. During its peak in Czechoslovakia, there were over 63 sobering-up stations. [ [http://www.czsk.net/svet/clanky/osobnosti/skalajaroslav.html Czechoslovak world] ]

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* [http://ekonomika.idnes.cz/prvni-zachytnou-stanici-na-svete-vymysleli-v-praze-fhn-/destilaty.asp?c=A060518_100430_destilaty_pal History of sobering-up stations] cs icon


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