A Tuesday Evening Out With Classmates at a Local College Disco Results In Abusive and Excessive Drinking and Alcohol Poisoning

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009 at 1:06 am

When Janice was in high school, she had acquired a reputation as a studious person who rarely, if ever, let her hair down by drinking with her pals. She seemed passionate about doing well academically so that she would be able to go after a career that she not only got pleasure from but one that also gave her a degree of security from a financial standpoint.

After much contemplation, in the end she made up her mind that she wanted to be a lawyer. In order to accomplish this, however, she would first have to attend four years of undergraduate education.

After Completing High School Janice Gets Accepted Into A Prestigious Undergraduate University as Preparation For a Career as an Attorney

After Janice graduated from high school, she applied to and was accepted into a nationally ranked program in math. Her rationale underlying this decision was that this area of study would be a good springboard for law school and wouldn’t be indistinguishable from the majority of law school applicants who major in political science at the undergraduate level.

After graduating with highest honors at the undergrad level, she applied to and was accepted at a greatly admired law school at one of the Big East universities.

She enjoyed her legal studies but every once in a while she was inundated with all the work that law school entailed. Not unlike her high school and undergraduate days, nevertheless, she made buddies easily but almost never got involved in social events until the semester was over.

After Feeling Overjoyed That She Had Done a Super Job on Her Tests, Janice Felt Like Celebrating

Janice was the type of person who worked in a diligent manner to complete what she started and then would take some time off when she could. As it turns out, however, virtually all of the things she did between school sessions or during summer breaks did not have much of anything to do with drinking. It almost goes without saying that Janice was anything but a partygoer. Now that her finals for her second year in law school were done and realizing that she had done extremely well on her finals, nevertheless, she wanted to take a break and do some celebrating.

Drinking at a Local Nightclub Leads to An Alcohol Overdose, Calling 911, The Emergency Number, and a Visit to An Alcohol Treatment Clinic

So Janice and a few of her classmates went to a local tavern where they had a few shots. As the hours flew by, Janice continued to drink without having a care in the world about examinations or class the next day. As a matter of fact, Janice mentioned to her buddies how thrilled she was to have fun drinking with her classmates.

As the evening progressed, Janice and her friends continued to drink. In truth, she was having such an incredible time that she didn’t want the night to end. It was almost as if she was making up for lost time and trying to shove a year’s worth of fun and excitement into a single evening. Such a “game plan,” it needs to be stressed, hardly ever works. If truth be told, when Janice went to the lady’s room and vomited, her pals started to get concerned about her health.

A few moments later when Janice started to talk in a confused manner, slur her speech, and then pass out, nevertheless, her buddies immediately realized that they needed to call 911, the emergency number, and ask for medical assistance because they suspected that Janice was manifesting alcohol poisoning symptoms.

Once Janice was in the alcohol rehab hospital, the lead healthcare practitioner validated what her friends had suspected, that is to say, that Janice ingested substantially more alcohol than her body could metabolize and, as a consequence, she suffered from 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 approximately five hours in recovery, Janice was then transferred to one of the regular hospital rooms. Fortunately, the worst part of her hospitalization was over and all of her vital signs returned to normal.

In response to Janice’s situation, her pals kindheartedly called her parents. As a consequence, early the next day, her parents and her best buddies went to the hospital to see Janice.

Janice Comes Close to Dying, is Thankful to be Alive, and Promises to Never Again Drink in an Excessive and Abusive Manner

Janice was attentive to the fact that she came an inch from losing her life and, as a consequence, was pleased to be alive. Her Mom and Dad were aware how rigorously she worked at the university and how little she permitted herself to socialize with her pals. Nonetheless, they also knew that Janice needed to steer clear of excessive drinking.

Consequently, they recommended that down the road, whenever a drinking occasion arises, that she always drink responsibly. Janice was in agreement with this and gave her word to her parents and to her friends that she would never again drink in an irresponsible and excessive manner. In Janice’s own words, “I never thought that I would become one of the alcohol abuse and alcoholism statistics in the local newspaper. I now understand that excessive and hazardous drinking is not for me. I proclaim that this will never happen again.”

Fortunately, Janice was not only “school smart” but she also had common sense. Stated more precisely, she instantaneously knew that she had made an error and decided that she would never make the same error again. Indeed, she now understood that she had involved herself in “binge drinking” and that even one instance of this kind of hazardous drinking can end in a fatality.

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