"die of drink" is not correct and usable in written English.
You could use the phrase "die from drinking" instead. Example Sentence: To avoid becoming one of the many people who have died from drinking too much, she decided to start moderating her alcohol consumption.
He did not die "of drink" but of complications from undiagnosed TB affecting his brain.
Beneath the calm surface you sense the violence, with women on the edge, like widows who die of drink, or devouring characters like Nur, the decadent Urdu poet of In Custody.
But already in that poem, from his second collection, "Saint Judas" (1959), Wright was moving away from pastoral elegance, straining to incorporate the brutal realities of working-class Ohio: I waste no pity on the dead that stink, And no love's lost between me and the crying Drunks of Belaire, Ohio, where police Kick at their kidneys till they die of drink.
You can open his diaries almost at random and find lines like: "I shall die of drink and makeup"; "It was a piece of glottal cake"; "We are cosmic jokes"; "I was gonged down by a highway patrolman for exceeding the speed limit"; "There are few pleasures to match tipsiness in this murderous world".
But already in that poem, from his second collection, "Saint Judas" (1959), Wright was moving away from pastoral elegance, straining to incorporate the brutal realities of working-class Ohio: **{:.break one} ** I waste no pity on the dead that stink, And no love's lost between me and the crying Drunks of Belaire, Ohio, where police Kick at their kidneys till they die of drink.
Some people have left the village, others have died of drink.
The 5th original member, Ron (Pigpen) McKernan, died of drink in 1973.
As you will when he eventually dies of drink or neglect.
In a subsequent TV programme his widow asserted that he had died of drink.
One of his sisters, Catherine, died of drink in her 30s, and the other was in and out of mental institutions all her life.
Sarah Playforth, Seaford Be prepared to feel guilty I think my mother still suffers from guilt that she couldn't do more to stop my uncle (her brother) from slowly dying of drink (he died 14 years ago, in his fifties).
