Chime School

When Janice was in high school, she had secured a reputation as a studious individual who rarely, if ever, drank with her peers. She seemed passionate about doing well academically so that she would be able to find a career that she not only liked but one that also gave her some security from a financial position.

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

After Completing High School Janice Gets Accepted Into A Prestigious Undergraduate University as a Springboard For a Career as a Lawyer

After Janice completed high school, she applied to and was accepted into a renowned program in philosophy. Her logic for this decision was that this subject area would be good preparation for law school and wouldn’t be identical to the majority of law school applicants who pick political science as their undergraduate major.

After graduating with high honors at the undergrad level, she applied to and was accepted at an esteemed law school at one of the Pacific Ten universities.

She was enthusiastic about her legal studies but on rare occasions she was beleaguered about all the work that law school demanded. Akin to the way in which she handled herself in her high school and undergraduate days, nevertheless, she made friends quite easily but hardly ever participated in social activities until the quarter was done.

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

Janice was the kind of individual who worked rigorously to reach her goal and then would take a couple of days off when she could. It just so happens, nonetheless, that virtually all of the things she did between terms or during summer breaks did not involve drinking. Evidently, Janice was anything but a party-girl. Now that her final exams for her second year in law school were over and feeling proud of the fact that she had done very well on her tests, nevertheless, she wanted to let her hair down and do something enjoyable.

Drinking at a Local Pub Leads to An Alcohol Overdose, Calling 911, The Emergency Number, and An Ambulance Ride to An Alcohol Rehab Clinic

So Janice and a few of her friends from the university went to a local pub where they had a few drinks. As the hours quickly passed, Janice persisted in drinking without having to worry about tests or class the next day. In fact, Janice stated to her buddies how delighted she was to have fun drinking with her law school buddies.

As the evening advanced, Janice and her buddies continued to drink. As a matter of fact, she was having such a marvelous time that she didn’t want the night to come to an end. It was almost like she was making up for lost time and making an effort to condense a year’s worth of pleasure into a single evening. Such a “game plan,” however, rarely works. If truth be told, when Janice went to the powder room and threw up, her classmates started to get concerned about her health.

About fifteen minutes later when Janice started to speak in a confused manner, slur her words, and then become unconscious, however, her friends instantly knew that they needed to call 911, the emergency services number, and ask for emergency assistance because they believed that Janice was displaying alcohol poisoning symptoms.

Once Janice was in the alcohol rehab hospital, the head emergency room doctor corroborated what her pals had believed, to be exact, that Janice consumed 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 detectable, Janice was wheeled to the recovery room. After staying roughly three hours in recovery, Janice was then moved to one of the regular hospital rooms. Fortunately, the worst part of her hospitalization was over and all of her vital signs were normal once again.

In response to Janice’s hospitalization, her friends considerately phoned her Mother and Father. As a result, early the next morning, her Mom and Dad and her favorite pals went to the hospital to see Janice.

Janice Dodges a Bullet, is Thankful to be Alive, and Promises to Never Again Drink in an Abusive Manner

Janice was conscious of the fact that she had narrowly escaped death and, as a consequence, was happy to be alive. Her Mother and Father knew how intensely she worked in graduate school and how little she let herself socialize with her friends. Nevertheless, they also were aware that Janice needed to keep away from hazardous drinking.

As a consequence, they recommended that down the road, whenever a drinking occasion presents itself, that she always drink responsibly and 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 her own words, “I never had an inkling that I would become one of the alcohol abuse and alcoholism statistics in the local college newspaper. I now understand that excessive drinking is not for me. I guarantee that this will never happen again.”

Fortunately, Janice was not only “school smart” but she also had common sense. Stated another way, she immediately knew that she had made an error and made up her mind that she would never make the same mistake again. As a matter of fact, she now knew that she had involved herself in “binge drinking” and that even one instance of this form of abusive drinking can end in a loss of life.

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