Alcoholism doesn't discriminate, but in Romania society does

In a small somewhat bare cantina style bar in downtown Bucharest several men are standing around sipping bottles of beer. Nothing unusual in that, except it's midweek and only just after nine in the morning. They may have jobs, they might have worked a night shift, they could lead reasonably successful lives, but it's a bad sign – the morning drink is one of the warning signs of a huge and to a large extent overlooked health problem in Romania and the rest of the EU – alcoholism.