The article presents the case of a 66-year-old man with rhabdomyolysis due to acute alcohol intoxication, manifested clinically by acute kidney injury and a sharp increase in creatine phosphokinase. During hospitalization, the patient suffered from cardiac and respiratory arrest with subsequent death. The post-mortem histopathological examination showed pathologies of numerous organs: putrefactive necrosis, pulmonary edema, pulmonary emphysema, megalocardia, acute myocardial infarction, hemorrhagic erosions of the gastric mucous membrane, atrophy of renal glomerules, colliquative necrosis of the liver, Balser necrosis of the pancreas, ascites, hydrothorax, lacunae in the occipitotemporal region and hydrocephalus. The described case presents a range of clinical problems appearing in the management of patients with severe form of alcohol-induced rhabdomyolysis.