Domestic alcohol exposure and youth suicides are among the single severe public health issues in Greenland.
More than half of young women in Greenland, from 15 to 24 years, had possible alcohol problems in 2018. The share was 56 percent in the case of women.
No roads to escape Nuuk. Only boat and flight options are available in Nuuk, a small settlement of around 18,000 inhabitants.
I’ve experienced warm welcoming in pubs from the locals and cold empty streets.
Mikkel and Rasmus (second, third and fourth picture from above).
They came to Greenland from Denmark eight months ago to work on a construction site as it’s well paid to them.
In the free time that they have in between their working hours and of course, after the working hours, they go to drink and they drink a lot.
In their opinion, there is not so much to live for except for the good times in a pub with other friends and of course, new friends like me.
In Nuuk, where they work and live, there are apparently not many options to find a good partner for live, neither just for sex and it doesn’t seems to be very wealthy for them.
As cocaine is very expensive in Nuuk (up to $400/gram, from what they said), they use pills that are normally used for curing ADHD, as they are pretty affordable, no matter how badly the effect will turn out.
On the fourth picture from above they are smoking a marijuana joint with the bartender in a local pub as they all know each other well as a small community.
