The Constitution of the addicts. M. I. Ryabova (Med. ob. lower Volga region, 1928, No. 3-4)

The author found that all drug addicts, including alcoholics, are mostly astenic, athletic or astenico-athletic by body structure; picnics are very rare among them, and there are more astenics and picnics among women than among men. Among alcoholics there are far more athletics and fewer astenics than among other addicts. The picnic structure of the body is rare among alcoholics; it is not found at all among drug addicts of other groups.