Jesse had a particularly difficult time maintaining a job. If truth be told, because of his slothfulness and lack of drive, he was jobless far more regularly than he was in a state of employment. And when he did land a job, he had an awfully difficult time getting to work on time, he typically received poor performance evaluations, and he called off sick so consistently that he almost always got fired four or five weeks after he began working. To no one’s surprise, one of the consequences of Jesse’s less than optimal work track record was the fact that he was just about flat broke almost everyday.
Regardless of Jesse’s appalling employment record and financial lack of attention, conversely, by hook or by crook he managed to drink in an abusive and hazardous manner almost everyday.
So it came as no big jolt when Jesse got a fourth DWI. When he went to court, the judge stated to Jesse that his alcohol-related behavior was awful and, as a result, he was going to sentence Jesse to spend twelve months locked up in jail.
Time While Locked Up In Jail To Reflect On The Injurious Outcomes of Abusive Drinking
During his time in the city jail, Jesse was expected to learn more about alcohol facts, about the damaging consequences of hazardous and irresponsible drinking, and he was expected to get alcohol treatment. The magistrate emphasized the fact that unless Jesse receives professional alcohol counseling and learns how to live a life of abstinence, he will most probably be spending more than a short amount of time placed behind bars.
Jesse articulated that he understood what the magistrate was saying but he still felt that incarceration was not the most effective punishment. The judge saw things from an entirely different orientation and stated that it was his job to keep alcohol dependent individuals off the streets who drink and drive and who get multiple DUIs. To substantiate this assertion, the magistrate listed some venerable, comprehensively researched alcohol statistics that highlighted some of the adverse consequences that are linked to abusive and hazardous drinking.
Even though Jesse understood that he drank abusively, he never thought that he was a person who was addicted to alcohol. So it was a real bombshell when Jesse began suffering from alcohol withdrawals around four hours after getting placed behind bars.
To deal with his symptoms of alcohol withdrawal in a safe and secure manner, Jesse was life flighted to a drug and alcohol rehab center for alcohol detoxification and then returned to jail. While locked up in the county jail Jesse was given alcohol rehabilitation but since he got this treatment as something that was forced upon him, he failed to take ownership of his abusive drinking.
When his time in jail was finished, the magistrate without reservation told Jesse that he would be under close observation and would be mandated to take periodic blood alcohol tests.
Jessie’s Irresponsible Drinking Stops Him From Living in an Accountable and Productive Manner
After hearing how Jesse did not take ownership of his drinking circumstances and how he unenthusiastically followed the rehabilitation regimen while in the city jail, the magistrate knew that it was just a matter of time before he would be seeing Jesse once again in court about his hazardous drinking behavior. As the magistrate reflected on Jesse’s situation, he couldn’t help but think about how some people never “connect the dots” and discover how to live in a mature and adult manner.
An Old Relationship Strengthens Jesse’s Self Esteem and Motivates and Inspires Him to Radically Transform His Life by Getting Alcohol Rehab
But something happened in Jesse’s life that substantially changed his unsafe lifestyle. One day when he was at the grocery store buying cigarettes, he met Alice, a girl he hadn’t seen since the ninth grade. After exchanging pleasantries, Alice candidly told Jesse that due to her drug and alcohol abuse she was lucky to be alive.
When Jesse asked her what happened that changed her life so completely, she explained to Jesse that when her cousin Donna passed away from a drug overdose, this forced her to see the ruinous and injurious life she had been living.
She stressed the point that the first thing she did after her cousin’s passing was to begin going back to her childhood church. That was fourteen years ago and with the support, guidance and help of her preacher and other people at the church, she started going to Alcoholics Anonymous and she also got drug and alcohol counseling at the free clinic. Alice told Jesse that despite a handful of rough moments, she is at long last on the path to long term sobriety and feeling a sense of happiness and bliss for the first time in her adult life. When Jesse accepted Alice’s invitation to attend her parish she was pleasantly surprised. After going to about six or seven sermons, for the first time since he was a young adult, Jesse felt a heightened sense of self esteem and started thinking that maybe there was hope for him and that he could at long last confront his alcohol and drug issues, get alcohol treatment, and start living a more healthy and fruitful life.