Straight Shots on an Empty Stomach
October 23, 2004
I had a student in my office who had been scared by what happened after she and her friends did a couple rounds of straight shots of alcohol at an off-campus house party. None of them had done straight shots before. They didn’t know how quickly the alcohol was going to impact them. They didn’t expect the vomiting. None of them had wanted to pass out at the house. They didn’t understand how much their body had been overwhelmed by the alcohol. It hit them too quickly. They had skipped dinner before they went out. None of them had anything to eat before they started drinking.
Sure, they had heard plenty of alcohol education messages in high school. They had taken the AlcoholEdu for College on-line course before coming to Carroll this fall. Their Alpha Seminar class had gone to the TIPS (Training for Intervention Procedures) training and they remembered the messages repeated at the session. They didn’t know why any of that didn’t keep them from taking straight shots on an empty stomach.
The student told me she and her friends had to experience it themselves before they learned the lesson. They hoped if others heard about their experience, someone would learn from their lesson.
Straight shots of alcohol go straight into the bloodstream. Don’t drink on an empty stomach. JDH
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