When Janice was in high school, she had obtained a reputation as an individual who studied much of the time and who rarely, if ever, “painted the town red” by drinking with her friends. She seemed highly motivated to excel academically so that she would be able to go after a career that she not only enjoyed but one that also gave her a degree of monetary stability.
After much thought, finally she made up her mind that she wanted to be a lawyer. In order to accomplish this, nevertheless, she would first have to complete four years of undergraduate education.
After Finishing High School Janice Gets Accepted Into A Famous Undergrad University as Training For a Career as a Trial Lawyer
After Janice completed high school, she applied to and was accepted into a well known program in history. Her logic behind this decision was that this area of study would be a good springboard for law school and wouldn’t be identical to the preponderance of law school applicants who choose political science as their undergraduate major or minor.
After graduating with a 3.75 GPA at the undergraduate level, she applied to and was accepted at an outstanding law school at one of the Big East universities.
She was energized by her legal studies but from time to time she was besieged with all the work that was necessary at law school. Reminiscent of the way in which she conducted herself in her high school and undergraduate days, however, she made pals quite easily but almost never got involved in social activities until the term was done.
After Being Pleased That She Had Done a Super Job 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 individual who worked studiously to complete what she was doing and then would take a breather when she could. As is the case, nonetheless, the vast majority of the things she did between school sessions or during her summer vacations did not have much to do with drinking. Clearly, Janice was anything but a partygoer. Now that her final exams for her second year in law school were done and elated with the fact that she had done extremely well on her tests, nevertheless, she felt like celebrating.
Drinking at a Local Tavern Leads to Alcohol Poisoning, Calling 911, The Emergency Services Number, and a Visit to An Alcohol Treatment Clinic
So Janice and some of her friends from the university went to a local nightclub where they had a few wine coolers. As the hours flew by, Janice persisted in drinking without having any concerns about exams or class the following day. As a matter of fact, Janice revealed to her friends how thrilled she was to ”get down” and drink with her pals from school.
As the evening proceeded, Janice and her friends continued to drink. In fact, she was having such a terrific time that she didn’t want the night to end. It was almost like she was making up for lost time and making an effort to shove a year’s worth of merriment into a single evening. Such a “game plan,” it needs to be stressed, does not often work. In point of fact, when Janice went to the lady’s room and vomited, her classmates started to get concerned about her health.
About twenty minutes later when Janice started to talk in a confused manner, slur her speech, and then pass out, in spite of this, her pals without delay realized that they needed to call 911 and ask for medical assistance because they thought that Janice was manifesting alcohol poisoning symptoms.
Once Janice was in the drug and alcohol rehab hospital, the lead physician verified what her friends had believed, namely, that Janice ingested substantially more alcohol than her body could process and, consequently, she experienced an alcohol overdose
After the emergency room treatment team pumped her stomach until no gastric contents were noticeable, Janice was placed in the recovery room. After staying approximately six hours in recovery, Janice was then placed in one of the regular hospital rooms. Fortunately, the most perilous part of her hospitalization was over and all of her vital signs were normal once again.
In response to Janice’s state of affairs, her pals caringly called her parents. As a consequence, early the next morning, her parents and her best buddies went to the hospital to visit Janice.
Janice Narrowly Escapes Death, is Pleased to be Alive, and Promises to Never Again Drink in an Abusive and Irresponsible Manner
Janice was conscious of the fact that she had narrowly escaped death and, consequently, was grateful to be alive. Her parents knew how intensely she worked at school and how little she permitted herself to socialize with her friends. Nonetheless, they also knew that Janice needed to steer clear of excessive drinking.
Consequently, they suggested that in the future, whenever a drinking circumstance unfolds, that she always drink in moderation. Janice agreed and assured her friends and her parents that she would never again drink in an abusive and hazardous manner. In her own words, “I never thought that I would become one of the alcohol abuse and alcoholism statistics in the local university newspaper. I now know that hazardous drinking is not for me. I say publicly that this will never happen again.”
Fortunately, Janice was not only “book smart” but she also had common sense. That is, she quickly understood that she had made an error in judgment and decided that she would never make the same error in judgment again. In truth, 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 loss of life.