Abstract
After World War II, the phenomenon of alcohol abuse was noted throughout Poland. Military officers, militiamen, UB officers, ORMO officers, and party activists tended to fall into addiction. Drunkenness was observed among professional chauffeurs, clerks and representatives of managerial cadres. Skilled and unskilled workers succumbed to it. There was mass drinking in both urban and rural areas. Women, young people and even children did not shy away from alcohol at that time. Based on archival and press sources, the article presents the scale of the alcohol abuse phenomenon in the Silesian Voivodeship in the years 1945-1950 and the measures taken to curb it. Available monographic studies were also used to show the supra-regional background of the problem involving various social groups in the post-war Poland.
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