28 min

Surviving Alcoholism: Who Pays the Price For Alcohol Addiction‪?‬ Unmute

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“My mother was hospitalised. I was supposed to stay in the hospital and look after her. But the moment I found time, I went to the wine shop and got myself a bottle. Then I’d come back, inebriated, and sleep in a blackout,” says 53-year-old Pulin. He's a former alcoholic who has been sober for over 6 years now.

Alcohol is responsible for killing over 2.5 lakh Indians every year, as per a 2018 report by the WHO.




In this podcast, we spoke to a 53-year-old former alcoholic who has been sober for over six years now, a 22-year-old woman who was hospitalised because of alcohol-related health complications, a man who lost his uncle to alcoholism, and another whose family was torn apart because of his father’s alcohol addiction.




And together, we try to answer the question: What does alcoholism take from people?

Host: Vishnu Gopinath
Producer: Vishnu Gopinath
Editor: Vishnu Gopinath

“My mother was hospitalised. I was supposed to stay in the hospital and look after her. But the moment I found time, I went to the wine shop and got myself a bottle. Then I’d come back, inebriated, and sleep in a blackout,” says 53-year-old Pulin. He's a former alcoholic who has been sober for over 6 years now.

Alcohol is responsible for killing over 2.5 lakh Indians every year, as per a 2018 report by the WHO.




In this podcast, we spoke to a 53-year-old former alcoholic who has been sober for over six years now, a 22-year-old woman who was hospitalised because of alcohol-related health complications, a man who lost his uncle to alcoholism, and another whose family was torn apart because of his father’s alcohol addiction.




And together, we try to answer the question: What does alcoholism take from people?

Host: Vishnu Gopinath
Producer: Vishnu Gopinath
Editor: Vishnu Gopinath

28 min

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