Sentence:  Wherever distilled spirits dominate over beer or wine, this nocturnal culture emerges, and with it the kind of alcoholism that never plateaus but merely <WSD>blottoes</WSD>, retreating into a night of its own and sometimes remaining there for a week at a time. You witness this among Poles, Russians, Swedes and Finns, all of whom are expert blottologists. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To become or cause to become (very) drunk or intoxicated.