Jesse had an extremely difficult time keeping a job. If truth be told, due to his languor and lack of incentive, he was jobless far more often than he was employed. And when he did find a job, he had an exceptionally hard time getting to work on time, he usually received less than passing performance assessments, and he called off sick so habitually that he typically got fired a few weeks after he began working. To no one’s amazement, one of the consequences of Jesse’s unacceptable work history was the fact that he was virtually penniless on a day-to-day basis.

Despite Jesse’s less than positive work record and financial negligence, on the other hand, one way or another he made it his business to drink in an excessive and hazardous manner on a daily basis.

So it came as no big surprise when Jesse got a third DWI. When he went before the court, the judge told Jesse that his alcohol-related behavior was appalling and, as a result, he was going to sentence Jesse to spend six months incarcerated in jail.

Time Behind Bars To Think About The Disruptive Outcomes of Irresponsible and Abusive Drinking

During his time in the municipal jail, Jesse was required to learn more about alcohol facts, about the injurious effects of irresponsible drinking, and he was expected to get alcohol therapy. The judge stressed the fact that unless Jesse receives professional alcohol counseling and discovers how to live an alcohol-free life, he will quite possibly be spending more than a short amount of time in the local jail.

Jesse stated that he comprehended what the judge was proclaiming but he still proclaimed that jail was not the correct judgment. The magistrate saw things from an entirely different orientation and stated that it was his responsibility to keep alcohol addicted people off the streets who drive under the influence and who get arrested for one or more DUIs. To authenticate this perspective, the magistrate listed some venerable, thoroughly researched alcohol statistics that stressed some of the harmful outcomes that are correlated with abusive and irresponsible drinking.

Although Jesse understood that he drank abusively, he never felt that he was an individual who was dependent on alcohol. So it was a real bombshell when Jesse started to experience alcohol withdrawal symptoms about five hours after getting locked up in the municipal jail.

To deal with his symptoms of alcohol withdrawal in a safe and secure manner, Jesse was transferred to an alcohol rehabilitation hospital for alcohol detoxification and then returned to the city jail. While locked up in the municipal jail Jesse undertook alcohol rehab but because he received this therapy as something that was forced upon him, he was unsuccessful in taking ownership of his excessive drinking.

When his time in the local jail was completed, the magistrate told Jesse that he would be under strict surveillance and would be required to take random breath alcohol tests.

Jessie’s Hazardous and Abusive Drinking Prevents Him From Living in a Responsible and Mature Manner

After hearing how Jesse did not take ownership of his drinking situation and how he halfheartedly followed the treatment code of behavior while in the county jail, the magistrate knew that it was essentially a matter of time before he would be seeing Jesse once again in court about his hazardous and irresponsible drinking behavior. As the judge thought about Jesse’s situation, he couldn’t help but think about how some people never “connect the dots” and learn how to live in a mature and responsible manner.

An Old Relationship Inspires and Motivates Jesse to Totally Change His Life

But something happened in Jesse’s life that thoroughly changed his injurious lifestyle. One day when he was at the grocery store buying cigarettes, he met Alice, a girl he hadn’t seen since the eighth grade. After exchanging pleasantries, Alice frankly told Jesse that due to her drug and alcohol dependency she was lucky to be alive.

When Jesse asked her what happened that changed her life so completely, she told Jesse that when her cousin Gena passed away from a drug overdose, this help her see the harmful and unhealthy life she had been living.

She emphasized the point that the first thing she did after her cousin’s passing was to begin going back to church. That was five years ago and with the help, support, and guidance of her reverend and other people who went to her parish, she started going to Alcoholics Anonymous and she also got alcohol and drug rehabilitation at the free clinic. Alice told Jesse that in spite of a couple of rough moments, she is finally on the road to long lasting sobriety and feeling a sense of delight and joy for the first time since she got out of high school. When Jesse accepted Alice’s invitation to go to her church she was pleasantly surprised. After going to roughly nine or ten church services, for the first time since he dropped out of high school, Jesse started thinking that maybe there was hope for him and that he could at last confront his alcohol and drug issues and start living a more healthy and fruitful life.

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