A Monday Night Out With Friends From College at a Local Cabaret Leads To Hazardous and Irresponsible Drinking and Alcohol Poisoning

When Janice was in high school, she had acquired a reputation as a studious individual who rarely, if ever, drank with her buddies.  She seemed determined to “shine” academically so that she would be able to secure a career that she not only got pleasure from but one that also gave her some security from a financial point of view.

After much deliberation, eventually she made up her mind that she wanted to be an attorney.  In order to achieve this goal, nonetheless, she would first have to complete four years of undergrad education.

After Graduating From High School Janice Gets Accepted Into An Esteemed Undergraduate University as Preparation For a Career as a Lawyer

After Janice finished high school, she applied to and was accepted into an outstanding program in economics.  Her logic behind this decision was that this subject would be good preparation for law school and wouldn’t be indistinguishable from the bulk of law school applicants who major in political science at the undergraduate level.

After graduating with a 3.65 GPA at the undergrad level, she applied to and was accepted at an outstanding law school at one of the Ivy League universities.

She was energized by her legal studies but occasionally she was snowed under from all the work that was involved at law school.  Akin to the way she handled herself in her high school and undergraduate days, nevertheless, she made buddies without much effort but barely participated in social functions until the semester was done.

After Feeling Proud of the Fact That She Had Done Very Well on Her Finals, Janice Wanted to Let Her Hair Down and Do Something Besides Going to College For a Change

Janice was the type of person who worked in a diligent manner to accomplish her goal and then would take a break when she could.  As it turns out, nonetheless, most of the things she did between terms or during summer breaks were unrelated to drinking.  It almost goes without saying that Janice was anything but a party-girl.  Now that her final exams for her second year in law school were over and feeling overjoyed that she had done very well on her exams, however, she wanted to let her hair down and have some fun.

Drinking at a Local Bar Leads to Symptoms of Alcohol Poisoning, Calling 911, and a Trip to An Alcohol Treatment Clinic

So Janice and a number of her friends from the university went to a local pub where they had a few cocktails.  As the hours passed, Janice persisted in drinking without having any concerns about term papers or examinations the following day.  In fact, Janice mentioned to her friends how overjoyed she was to ”get down” and drink with her friends.

As the evening went by, Janice and her pals continued to drink.  In actual fact, she was having such a magnificent time that she didn’t want the night to come to an end.  It was almost like she was making up for lost time and making an attempt to compress a year’s worth of excitement into a single evening.  Such a “game plan,” it needs to be stressed, does not often work. In truth, when Janice went to the lady’s room and threw up, her pals started to feel apprehensive about her wellbeing.

About thirty minutes later when Janice started to slur her speech, talk in a confused manner, and then become unconscious, in spite of this, her classmates instantaneously realized that they needed to call 911 and ask for emergency assistance because they thought that Janice was exhibiting alcohol poisoning symptoms.

Once Janice was in the drug and alcohol rehab hospital, the presiding emergency room physician substantiated what her friends had assumed, to be exact, that Janice drank far more alcohol than her body could handle and, consequently, she experienced an alcohol overdose.

After the medical team pumped her stomach until no gastric contents were identifiable, Janice was relocated to the recovery room.  After staying almost five hours in recovery, Janice was then transferred to one of the regular hospital rooms.  Fortunately, the most life-threatening part of her hospitalization was over and all of her vital signs were back to normal.

In response to Janice’s medical situation, her classmates considerately phoned her Mother and Father.  As a result, early the next day, her Mother and Father and her best buddies went to the hospital to visit Janice.

Janice Comes an Inch From Losing Her Life, is Pleased to be Alive, and Promises to Never Again Drink in an Irresponsible Manner

Janice was attentive to the fact that she had dodged a bullet and, as a result, was grateful to be alive.  Her parents were aware how rigorously she worked at the university and how little she permitted herself to have any fun.  Nevertheless, they also were aware that Janice needed to stay away from hazardous drinking.

Consequently, they suggested that in the future, whenever a drinking opportunity presents itself, that she always drink responsibly and in moderation.  Janice was in agreement with this and assured her Mother and Father and her friends that she would never again drink in an excessive and irresponsible manner.  In Janice’s own words, “I never thought that I would become one of the alcohol abuse and alcoholism statistics in the local college newspaper. I now know that excessive and abusive drinking is not for me.  I assert that this will never happen again.”

Fortunately, Janice was not only “school smart” but she also had common sense.  Stated differently, she rapidly knew that she had made an error in judgment and decided that she would never make the same error in judgment again.  In fact, she now knew that she had involved herself in “binge drinking” and that even one instance of this type of excessive drinking can end in death.