When Janice was in high school, she had acquired a reputation as an individual who hit the books real hard and who rarely, if ever, partied with her buddies. She seemed highly motivated to excel academically so that she would be able to find a career that she not only got pleasure from but one that also gave her a degree of monetary security.

After much thought, finally she came to a decision that she wanted to be a lawyer. In order to bring this about, nonetheless, she would first have to attend four years of undergraduate education.

After Graduating From High School Janice Gets Accepted Into A Prominent Undergraduate University as a Foundation For a Career as an Attorney

After Janice completed high school, she applied to and was accepted into a nationally ranked program in history. Her rationale for this decision was that this subject matter would be a good foundation 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 3.9 GPA at the undergrad level, she applied to and was accepted at a prominent law school at one of the Ivy League universities.

She enjoyed her legal studies but every so often she was inundated with all the work that had to be accomplished at law school. Reminiscent to the way she handled herself in her high school and undergraduate days, nonetheless, she made pals quite easily but scarcely got involved in social activities until the school period had ended.

After Feeling Happy That She Had Done Very Well on Her Finals, Janice Wanted to Let Her Hair Down and Do Something Besides School Work For a Change

Janice was the type of person who worked rigorously to reach her objective and then would take a couple of days off when she could. As it turns out, nonetheless, nearly all of the things she did between school sessions or during her summer vacations did not involve drinking. Obviously, Janice was anything but a party-person. Now that her finals for her second year in law school were over and being delighted with the fact that she had done a super job on her exams, nevertheless, she wanted to take a break and do some celebrating.

Drinking at a Local Tavern Results in Alcohol Poisoning, Calling 911, The Emergency Services Number, and An Ambulance Ride to An Alcohol Treatment Center

So Janice and several of her friends from the university went to a local bar and grill where they had a few glasses of wine. As the hours quickly passed, Janice continued to drink without having a care in the world about tests or research projects the next day. In actual fact, Janice told her pals how much fun it was to ”get down” and drink with her pals from school.

As the evening advanced, Janice and her buddies continued to drink. In fact, she was having such a fabulous time that she didn’t want the night to end. It was almost like she was making up for lost time and making an attempt to squeeze a year’s worth of excitement into a single evening. Such a “game plan,” however, hardly ever works. In actual fact, when Janice went to the lady’s room and vomited, her classmates started to get concerned about her wellbeing.

Around twenty minutes later when Janice started to speak in a confused manner, slur her words, and then fall unconscious, nevertheless, her friends without delay knew that they needed to call the emergency number 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 head healthcare professional substantiated what her buddies had speculated, to be precise, that Janice consumed far more alcohol than her body could handle and, as a result, she experienced an alcohol overdose

After the emergency room treatment team pumped her stomach until no gastric contents were noticeable, Janice was transferred to the recovery room. After staying roughly five hours in recovery, Janice was then transported to one of the regular hospital rooms. Fortunately, the worst had passed and all of her vital signs were once again in the normal range.

In response to Janice’s medical situation, her classmates kindheartedly called her Mother and Father. Consequently, early the next day, her Mother and Father and her favorite pals went to the hospital to visit Janice.

Janice Comes Close to Losing Her Life, is Grateful to be Alive, and Promises to Never Again Drink in an Excessive and Abusive Manner

Janice was attentive to the fact that she came close to dying and, consequently, was pleased to be alive. Her Mother and Father knew how intensely she worked in graduate school and how little she permitted herself to socialize with her buddies. Nonetheless, they also were aware that Janice needed to steer clear of irresponsible drinking.

As a consequence, they recommended that down the road, whenever a drinking situation develops, that she always drink in moderation. Janice was of the same opinion and gave her word to her friends and to her Mother and Father that she would never again drink in a hazardous manner. In her own words, “I never had an inkling that I would become one of the alcohol abuse and alcoholism statistics in the local university newspaper. I now realize that excessive drinking is not for me. I pledge that this will never happen again.”

Fortunately, Janice was not only “school smart” but she also displayed a lot of common sense. That is, she rapidly comprehended 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 form of alcohol abuse can end in a fatality.