A Saturday Evening Out With Friends From School at a Local Disco Leads To Irresponsible and Excessive Drinking and An Alcohol Overdose
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009When Janice was in high school, she had gained a reputation as a person who studied a lot and who rarely, if ever, partied with her peers. She seemed driven to “shine” academically so that she would be able to go after a career that she not only benefited from but one that also gave her a degree of security from a financial standpoint.
After much deliberation, finally she made up her mind that she wanted to be a lawyer. In order to achieve this goal, nevertheless, she would first have to finish four years of undergraduate education.
After Graduating From High School Janice Gets Accepted Into A Famous Undergrad University as Training For a Career as an Attorney
After Janice finished high school, she applied to and was accepted into a well known program in linguistics. Her justification for this decision was that this subject area would be good training for law school and wouldn’t be similar to the majority of law school applicants who major in political science at the undergraduate level.
After graduating with a 3.8 GPA at the undergraduate level, she applied to and was accepted at an esteemed law school at one of the Big Ten universities.
She was enthusiastic about her legal studies but occasionally she was beleaguered about all the work that law school demanded. Reminiscent to the way she handled herself in her high school and undergraduate days, however, she made buddies effortlessly but almost never participated in social activities until the quarter had ended.
After Being Pleased That She Had Done a Super Job on Her Exams, Janice Wanted to Let Her Hair Down and Do Something Besides School Work For a Change
Janice was the type of individual who worked in a vigorous manner to complete what she started and then would take a few days off when she could. It just so happens, however, that the vast majority of the things she did between terms or during her summer vacations were not associated with drinking. Clearly, Janice was anything but a party-person. Now that her final examinations for her second year in law school were done and realizing that she had done very well on her exams, because of this, she wanted to take a break and do some celebrating.
Drinking at a Local Saloon Results in An Alcohol Overdose, Calling 911, The Emergency Services Number, and a Visit to An Alcohol Treatment Clinic
So Janice and a few of her classmates went to a local pub where they had a few drinks. As the hours went by, Janice continued to drink without having to worry about term papers or tests the following day. If truth be told, Janice revealed to her classmates how overjoyed she was to party with her law school friends.
As the evening moved forward, Janice and her classmates continued to drink. In truth, she was having such a superb time that she didn’t want the night to come to an end. It was almost as if she was making up for lost time and making an attempt to compress a year’s worth of merriment into a single evening. Such a “game plan,” it needs to be emphasized, hardly ever works. If truth be told, when Janice went to the restroom and vomited, her pals started to get anxious about her health.
Around twenty minutes later when Janice started to speak in a confused manner, slur her words, and then fall unconscious, nonetheless, her friends instantaneously realized that they needed to call 911, the emergency services number, and ask for emergency assistance because they thought that Janice was displaying alcohol poisoning symptoms.
Once Janice was in the alcohol rehab hospital, the lead emergency room physician validated what her buddies had hypothesized, to be precise, that Janice drank substantially more alcohol than her body could metabolize and, as a result, she suffered from an alcohol overdose.
After the emergency room medical staff pumped her stomach until no gastric contents were identifiable, Janice was transported to the recovery room. After staying around six hours in recovery, Janice was then placed in one of the regular hospital rooms. Fortunately, the most life-threatening part of her hospitalization was over and all of her vital signs were once again in the normal range.
In response to Janice’s medical condition, her friends considerately telephoned her parents. Consequently, early the next day, her Mom and Dad and her best friends went to the hospital to see Janice.
Janice Comes Close to Losing Her Life, is Pleased to be Alive, and Promises to Never Again Drink in an Abusive and Irresponsible Manner
Janice was attentive to the fact that she had narrowly escaped death and, as a consequence, was thankful to be alive. Her parents were aware how hard she studied at school and how little she let herself socialize with her buddies. Nonetheless, they also realized that Janice needed to avoid irresponsible drinking.
As a consequence, they recommended that down the road, whenever a drinking circumstance presents itself, that she always drink in moderation. Janice was fine with this and swore to her friends and to her parents that she would never again drink in an abusive and irresponsible manner. As stated by Janice, “I never had a clue that I would become one of the alcohol abuse and alcoholism statistics in the local city newspaper. I now grasp the fact that abusive and irresponsible drinking is not for me. I declare that this will never happen again.”
Fortunately, Janice was not only “school smart” but she also had common sense. Stated another way, she quickly grasped the fact that she had made an error and decided that she would never make the same error in judgment again. In point of fact, she now grasped the fact that she had involved herself in “binge drinking” and that even one instance of this type of alcohol abuse can end in a fatality.


