Brezhnev was succeeded by Yuri V. Andropov, a career diplomat and former head of the KGB. Andropov attempted to address the myriad problems facing Soviet communism, but his advanced age and poor health precluded him from achieving anything of note. His attempt to eliminate alcoholism by imposing prohibition simply made black marketers more powerful and helped fund organized crime, much as a similar attempt had done fifty years earlier in the United States. Following his death in 1984, Konstantin U. Chernenko was named to succeed him. Unlike Andropov, Chernenko was perfectly content to wallow in the status quo. He, too, suffered from poor health as a result of old age and died in 1985.