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{{trope}}
[[File:Simpsons Shot 2 2997.jpg|link=The Simpsons (animation)|frame|When one "[[I Need a Freaking Drink|Freaking Drink]]" isn't enough.]]
{{quote|''"When you drink like that, it isn't for pleasure. It's because your thoughts have become diseases. You do it because it's the only easy cure you can find."''|'''Ginn Hale''', ''Wicked Gentlemen''}}
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* Lampe and Kim san Kaku go out and get plastered at the end of the intro comic of ''[[Astro Boy (manga)|Astro Boy]]'' volume 5 after they learn they were both designed after [[Osamu Tezuka]]'s dorky elementary school classmates.
* A realistic occurrence takes place in ''[[Monster (manga)|Monster]]'', after Tenma is demoted and then dumped by his [[Rich Bitch|cold bitch of a fiancee.]] And said fiancee, Eva, does it as well... [[Lady Drunk|for years.]]
* ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' features two examples. The first one is played straight, and it comes from in the ''R'' season,: Usagi notices that Mamoru has a "new" girlfriend {{spoiler|(he doesn't, but since he believes he cannot be with
* Sayoko from ''[[Ah! My Goddess]]'' does this
** Subverted by Urd, who ''needs'' to drink to {{spoiler|restore her powers.}}
* Jeanne takes to drinking vodka by the bottle in ''[[Rose of Versailles]]'' after the Affair of the Necklace. Oscar is also occasionally seen surrounded by empty wine bottles.
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* [[Genghis Khan]] in Conn Iggulden's ''[[Conqueror|Bones of the Hills]]'' takes to the airag after Temulun is killed during a raid ({{spoiler|after being [[Moral Event Horizon|raped]] by Kokchu}}).
* [[Graham McNeill]]'s ''[[Warhammer 40,000]] [[Ultramarines (novel)|Ultramarines]]'' novel ''The Killing Grounds'' opens with a former soldier trying to drown his sorrows. He ends up [[Driven to Suicide|blowing his brains out]] as more effective.
* In ''[[Discworld]]'', Sam Vimes was like this up until his marriage to Sybil Ramkin. In ''[[
** The Luggage, an animated chest whose sentience is debatable, [[
** Detritus, Gaspode and Thomas Silverfish all do this about halfway through ''[[
* ''[[The Vampire Chronicles]]'' has a fair amount of this going on. Louis in ''Interview with the Vampire'' not only drinks away his sorrows but picks fights and sleeps with prostitutes, hoping to get himself killed. Later in ''Blackwood Farm'' Quinn also drinks away his sorrows and his fears. In ''Queen of the Damned,'' this is slightly subverted, as Daniel Molloy tries to drink away his madness (from the knowledge that vampires are real).
* Averted and played straight in ''[[Star Wars|Starfighters]] [[Star Wars Expanded Universe|of]] [[X Wing Series|Adumar]]'' - Wedge heads to a bar mostly for privacy while he thinks through some questions of honor vs. the chain of command (he doesn't get very drunk, either). However, at the bar, he runs across {{spoiler|Admiral Rogriss}}, who decided the answer to his problem ([[Not So Different|basically the same as Wedge's]]) was to get stone drunk.
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== Real Life ==
* Sir John A. Macdonald, the first [[Prime Ministers of Canada|Prime Minister of Canada]]. Even in the 1860s and 1870s, Macdonald's drinking binges were legendary, but in truth the poor guy had good reason to want to get loaded, not least of which were the serious financial problems he faced, and the even more serious problems stemming from the poor health of his wife and daughter. On top of all that, Canada has been described by many of its prime ministers as extremely difficult to govern. It's not hard to see why Macdonald would need a good stiff drink now and again.
* It seems that John Kerr, former governor-general of Australia, did this after the public backlash resulting from him dismissal of the Prime Minister in 1975 started to get to him. When presenting the 1977 Melbourne Cup, he was visibly drunk.
* Let's face it: Many, many people do this, and [[The Alcoholic|sometimes they don't stop]].
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