Vice Season 4 Episode 17 Synopsis

'Student Debt' - Americans owe $1.3 trillion in student loans - second only to home mortgages. The rise in student loan borrowing is tied to skyrocketing tuition rates, which are up 226% since 1980. VICE reports from America's college campuses to explore how a spigot of easy money from the federal government is jacking up the cost of higher education and even threatening our international competitiveness.

'Fecal Medicine' - For years, medical science was powerless against one of the most of severe intestinal infections. But a new treatment shows tremendous promise - if patients aren't too squeamish to try it. Fecal transplants use the stool from a healthy person to repopulate life-sustaining bacteria in the colon of the patient. This technique is so effective that researchers are testing its potential to treat disorders far beyond the digestive tract, pointing to breakthrough treatments for a broad range of the most stubborn diseases. VICE reports from the labs and lavatories where this medical revolution is taking place.

Vice Season 4 Episodes...

• s04e01 - Boko Haram & Unnatural Selection
• s04e02 - Escape to Europe & Cycle of Terror
• s04e03 - Right to Die
• s04e04 - Beating Blindness & White Collar Weed
• s04e05 - Meathooked & End of Water
• s04e06 - Return to Yemen & Church and States
• s04e07 - Palestine Now & Viva Cuba Libre
• s04e08 - Afghan Women's Rights & Floating Armories
• s04e09 - The Future of Energy
• s04e10 - Trump in Dubai / China in Africa
• s04e11 - The Deal & City of Lost Children
• s04e12 - The End of Polio & Collateral Damage
• s04e13 - State of Surveillance
• s04e14 - Heroin Crisis & New Age of Nukes
• s04e15 - Flint Water Crisis & Libya on the Brink
• s04e16 - Die Trying
• s04e17 - Student Debt & Fecal Medicine
• s04e18 - The New $pace Race & Closing Gitmo

Vice Show Summary

HBO is partnering with "VICE" on an innovative news magazine show to be hosted by "VICE" founder Shane Smith, it was announced today by Michael Lombardo, president, HBO Programming.

The HBO series will showcase a mix of stories from around the globe. Among the segments in production for possible inclusion in the show are: Taliban child sleeping bombers; North Korean slave labor camps; New York's underground voodoo heroin clinics; Somalian pirates; and Satanic dentists in the Pacific Northwest.