Tubing in Vang Vieng. Whats the story in 2013?

Tubing in Vang Vieng, is it all done and dusted with? Once the perennial South East Asian backpacker piss up party town, it was THE place to sit in an old decrepit rubber ring, float down a beautiful river of which you will take little notice, use you mates faces as a canvas for your new found love of fluorescent art, drink beer and whisky whilst getting shit faced in the process and then make ill advised decisions to jump at great heights from any structu…