A Friday Evening Out With Buddies From School at a Local College Discotheque Results In Abusive and Hazardous Drinking and Alcohol Overdose Symptoms

When Janice was in high school, she had achieved a reputation as an individual who studied a lot and who rarely, if ever, had fun drinking with her buddies. She seemed single-minded about excelling academically so that she would be able to secure a career that she not only enjoyed but one that also gave her some security from a financial perspective.

After much thought, eventually she made up her mind that she wanted to be a trial lawyer. In order to reach this goal, nonetheless, she would first have to attend four years of undergraduate education.

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

After Janice completed high school, she applied to and was accepted into an illustrious program in religion. Her analysis of her options regarding this decision was based on the fact that this subject area would be good preparation for law school and wouldn’t be comparable to the preponderance of law school applicants who select political science as their undergraduate major.

After graduating with a 3.95 GPA at the undergrad level, she applied to and was accepted at a nationally ranked law school at one of the Big Ten universities.

She was pleased with her legal studies but periodically she was inundated with all the work that had to be accomplished at law school. Akin to the way she handled herself in her high school and undergraduate days, nevertheless, she made buddies quite easily but very infrequently got involved in social activities until the school period had ended.

After Being Elated With the Fact That She Had Done a Super Job on Her Tests, Janice Wanted to Let Her Hair Down and Do Something Enjoyable

Janice was the type of individual who worked meticulously to finish what she started and then would take a few days off when she could. As it turns out, nevertheless, nearly all of the things she did between school sessions or during her summer vacations did not have much to do with drinking. Obviously, Janice was anything but a partygoer. Now that her finals for her second year in law school were finished and being jubilant with the fact that she had done a super job on her exams, however, she wanted to let her hair down and do something besides studying for a change.

Drinking at a Local Saloon Results in Alcohol Poisoning Symptoms, Calling 911, and a Visit to An Alcohol Rehab Hospital

So Janice and a number of her pals went to a local club where they had a few glasses of wine. As the hours flew by, Janice persisted in drinking without having a care in the world about research projects or exams the following day. In point of fact, Janice told her pals how enjoyable it was to have fun drinking with classmates from her apartment.

As the evening progressed, Janice and her friends continued to drink. If truth be told, she was having such a good 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 squeeze a year’s worth of laughter and fun into a single evening. Such a “game plan,” it needs to be emphasized, does not often work. As a matter of fact, when Janice went to the powder room and vomited, her friends started to get worried about her safety.

About thirty minutes later when Janice started to talk in a confused manner, slur her speech, and then fall unconscious, nonetheless, her classmates instantly realized that they needed to call 911, the emergency services number, and ask for medical assistance because they suspected that Janice was exhibiting alcohol poisoning symptoms.

Once Janice was in the rehab hospital, the lead emergency room physician confirmed what her pals had thought, namely, that Janice drank substantially more alcohol than her body could handle and, as a result, she experienced an alcohol overdose.

After the medical team pumped her stomach until no gastric contents were observable, Janice was transferred to the recovery room. After staying almost five hours in recovery, Janice was then wheeled 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 medical situation, her buddies attentively called her parents. As a result, early the next morning, her parents and her best friends went to the hospital to visit Janice and check on her medical progress.

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

Janice was attentive to the fact that she had dodged a bullet and, consequently, was happy to be alive. Her Mom and Dad realized how intensely she worked in graduate school and how little she permitted herself to socialize with her buddies. Nevertheless, they also knew that Janice needed to steer clear of hazardous drinking.

Consequently, they suggested that in the future, whenever a drinking opportunity arises, that she always drink in moderation. Janice was in agreement with this and assured her Mother and Father and her friends that she would never again drink in a hazardous 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 know that excessive and hazardous drinking is not for me. I declare that this will never happen again.”

Fortunately, Janice was not only “school smart” but she also displayed a lot of common sense. In other words, she immediately knew that she had made an error and made up her mind that she would never make the same mistake again. In actual fact, 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.