A Night Out With School Buddies at a Local College Tavern Results In Hazardous Drinking and An Alcohol Overdose

When Janice was in high school, she had obtained a reputation as a studious person who rarely, if ever, whooped it up by drinking with her friends. She seemed almost obsessed about doing well academically so that she would be able to find a career that she not only benefited from but one that also gave her a degree of monetary stability.

After much consideration, in time she decided that she wanted to be an attorney. In order to achieve this goal, nevertheless, she would first have to finish four years of undergraduate education.

After Finishing High School Janice Gets Accepted Into A Celebrated Undergrad University as a Foundation For a Career as a Lawyer

After Janice graduated from high school, she applied to and was accepted into a distinguished program in history. Her reasoning for this decision was that this academic discipline would be a good foundation for law school and wouldn’t be identical to the bulk of law school applicants who choose political science as their undergraduate major or minor.

After graduating with highest honors at the undergraduate level, she applied to and was accepted at a prominent law school at one of the Big 12 universities.

She enjoyed her legal studies but on rare occasions she was snowed under from all the work that had to be done at law school. Not unlike her high school and undergraduate days, however, she made friends quite easily but hardly ever got involved in social events until the school period had been concluded.

After Thrilled with the Fact That She Had Done Very Well on Her Tests, Janice Wanted to Let Her Hair Down and Do Something Enjoyable

Janice was the kind of individual who worked studiously to finish what she was doing and then would take a breather when she could. As is the case, nevertheless, the vast majority of the things she did between school sessions or during her summer vacations did not have much of anything to do with drinking. Obviously, Janice was anything but a party-girl. Now that her finals for her second year in law school were finished and pleased that she had done a super job on her exams, because of this, she wanted to let her hair down and do something besides school work for a change.

Drinking at a Local Nightclub Leads to Alcohol Poisoning, Calling 911, and An Ambulance Ride to An Alcohol Rehab Center

So Janice and some of her pals went to a local pub where they had a few cocktails. As the hours quickly passed, Janice persisted in drinking without having any concerns about research projects or tests the following day. As a matter of fact, Janice told her classmates how overjoyed she was to have fun drinking with classmates from her apartment.

As the evening advanced, Janice and her classmates continued to drink. As a matter of fact, she was having so much fun 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 attempting to shove a year’s worth of enjoyment into a single evening. Such a “game plan,” it needs to be emphasized, seldom works. In actual fact, when Janice went to the lady’s room and vomited, her pals started to feel apprehensive about her safety.

About twenty minutes later when Janice started to talk in a confused manner, slur her speech, and then become unconscious, nevertheless, her buddies instantaneously realized that they needed to call 911, the emergency services number, and ask for emergency assistance because they believed that Janice was exhibiting alcohol poisoning symptoms.

Once Janice was in the alcohol rehab hospital, the presiding healthcare practitioner confirmed what her friends had believed, that is to say, that Janice drank far more alcohol than her body could handle and, as a consequence, she suffered from an alcohol overdose

After the emergency room treatment team pumped her stomach until no gastric contents were observable, Janice was wheeled to the recovery room. After staying almost four hours in recovery, Janice was then transported to one of the regular hospital rooms. Fortunately, the most serious part of her hospitalization had passed and all of her vital signs were normal once again.

In response to Janice’s state of affairs, her buddies caringly phoned her parents. Consequently, early the next day, her parents and her best friends went to the hospital to see how Janice was doing.

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

Janice was conscious of the fact that she came close to dying and, as a consequence, was gratified to be alive. Her Mother and Father were aware how hard she worked at school and how little she let herself experience a social life. Nonetheless, they also realized that Janice needed to stay away from abusive drinking.

As a consequence, they suggested that in the future, whenever a drinking occasion develops, that she always drink in moderation and responsibly. Janice was fine with this and swore to her Mom and Dad and to her friends that she would never again drink in an irresponsible and abusive manner. In Janice’s own words, “I never pondered the fact that I would become one of the alcohol abuse and alcoholism statistics in the local city newspaper. I now know that excessive drinking is not for me. This will never happen again.”

Fortunately, Janice was not only “book smart” but she also had a lot of common sense. Stated differently, she instantaneously knew that she had made an error in judgment and decided that she would never make the same mistake again. In truth, she now realized that she had involved herself in “binge drinking” and that even one instance of this type of abusive drinking can end in a loss of life.

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