Alcoholism on Vice

  • Bollocks to the Hippocratic Oath

    How to Drink Until Your Ass Bleeds

    He drank so much he had scoured the inside of his stomach raw with ulcers, which were bleeding out so quickly it ran straight through the 6.5m of his gut, mixed with shit and leaked all over the street. Full story

    2012 Nov 14 Dr. Mona Moore Stuff
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  • Fringes

    War Gin

    Ugandans are the hardest drinking Africans in the motherland, both in terms of per capita consumption and the hooch they choose to chug. Waragi, or "war gin," is what they call the local moonshine, and it makes the harshest Appalachian rotgut taste like freaking Bailey's. Full story

    2012 Nov 9 Thomas Morton Travel
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  • The River Styx Is Full of Booze

    Drinking Oneself to Death Is Serious Business

    Photographer Casper Dalhoff recently spent some time in a Copenhagen institution for chronic alcoholics. Full story

    2009 Feb 3 Casper Dalhoff, Elin Unnes Photo
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  • No More Firewater

    Getting Sober for the Next Generation

    I was addicted to alcohol. I’ve been to five treatments. I did meth too. That doesn’t get you anywhere. It takes everything away from you. Your kids, your house… your entire life. It’s a bad drug. It’s taking over Native communities lately. Full story

    2006 Jan 1 Mary Big Day News
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