(water runs)
(music plays)
(phone chimes)
(knocking)
- Are you ready yet?
- Yeah, hold on.
- We're late.
What took you so long?
Honey this is not NYC,
this is North Hampton the town of what are those.
- Ha, ha so funny.
- Damn, salty much?
- Don't ask.
- Whatever.
How's Miranda?
- She's done with me.
- Dude, what happened?
- Well what happened is she broke up with me.
I told you not to ask.
- Wow that sucks.
But chill, we're going to go out get drunk tonight.
It will be lit, you know,
and you'll definitely have a good time.
- I don't know, I'm already feeling pretty crappy.
I'm not sure alcohol is what I need
in my system right now.
- Axe, just trust the expert here.
Everyone at Smith's, self cares.
What are you going to do?
Just sit in your room and listen to sad music.
Come on, just come out with me tonight,
we'll have a few drinks and everything will be great okay?
- Yeah you're right, I need that.
(upbeat music)
(people chatting)
- Okay folks who's ready to party?
- Whoa, whoa, whoa, guys it's only eight.
Are you sure you want to start your night having shots?
- Eight, nine, ten, I'm on break-up time baby.
It's definitely time for shots.
- Hold on.
Number one, please have some water.
And number two, what happened with Miranda?
How come you didn't call me?
- I didn't want to bother you with anything.
Plus everyone is so stressed out,
with midterms and all that.
Plus this is typical movie stuff.
First year girl drama, pathetic
- No, no, no.
Dude you're not pathetic at all, okay?
Yeah the first year is hard for everybody.
But judging yourself is not
going to make it any easier.
Trust me, I've been there
and it didn't work at all okay?
- Yeah I don't think first year is easy for anyone.
But I don't think dealing with it alone,
or by having shots,
is going to make it any easier.
- Well we'll be the judge of that.
- Pour, pour, pour.
More, more.
It's not enough.
- That's definitely enough Farrah.
- Dude they are mixing all kinds of stuff.
- You're telling me Kate.
I was a bartender okay?
Those shots that they are pouring,
that's like, at least three times
the amount of a shot right there.
Trust me this night is not
going to end well for these two.
(dance music)
- Okay I don't know what is happening right now.
What is that drinking thing you told me about?
- Oh the pleasure plateau?
- Yeah I think they're out of it.
Like isn't that the point where,
you just stop caring about anything?
- Well yeah they pleasure plateau is when
you're drunk but at least you
still have your inhibitions.
I mean, looking at these two I would say
they're definitely past, beyond it.
Right now I would say is the time
when they're just about to start feeling
the effects of having way too much booze.
- Axe, come here.
Okay friend, I think you've had enough.
- Kate, that was awesome.
I was looking at the three D's.
It says here that, okay, the first one is direct.
Okay so that was good.
Okay now we have to find something to distract them.
Here Ax, please have a lollipop.
And then what else?
Okay it says here, we're supposed to delegate.
Kate I was babysit the last time,
so this one is all on you.
- Absolutely.
- Ax, I'm glad you're good.
If you had to call camp or something,
we would have been kicked out.
- Farrah don't worry Axe, it's not true.
Smith's amnesty policy protects anyone who calls
camp-o for medical attention if they've
had too much to drink.
- Okay, smarty pants.
- Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Farrah, dude I think you had enough tonight.
Just because Smith has an amnesty policy,
does not mean we have to use it tonight.
- Just because you're sober all the time,
doesn't mean you can tell me what to do.
Unlike you, I can drink.
- Come on Farrah, I'm not telling
you this to judge you.
I'm not saying I'm better than you or anything.
That's fine.
Your body, your choice.
I stay to choose sober because alcohol
and I do not have a good history.
But you can make your own choices.
I'm just telling you this because I'm worried about you.
I'm your friend.
- Well Sella, I know what I'm doing.
Mind your own business!
- Farrah, Wait!
(soft music)
(knocking)
- Oh hi, are you Farrah?
Come on in, come on in.
What can I do for you?
- My friends think I have some
kind of problem or whatever.
- Okay.
- Is this confidential?
- Yeah of course it is.
I would never share anything with anyone.
I don't have to share with deans,
or with the help service, or with parents, anyone.
- Okay, so my friends have been really annoying lately.
I mean, I don't understand why.
We've been friends since our first year.
We would chill together, go to Kate's room, study,
go to parties at U mass,
I was the life of the party.
Everyone just loved how I act, I don't know.
But people think my party
personality is a problem now.
- Okay, I hear what you're saying.
I hear that like, when you drink,
it feels like you become a little bit more of yourself.
That's what I'm hearing you say, right?
You maybe lose a little inhibitions,
you might be out there dancing,
a little bit more or whatever the case may be.
And substances can do that.
It can be both positive and negative.
They can make us feel more, you know, alive.
Make us have more interactions that we want to have.
But at the same time,
it can amplify some of the traits that people
usually see as positive, as more negative.
Because it can make us more boisterous,
or more aggressive or louder than we usually are.
And that can be negative,
in some ways, for the people around you,
depending on how it plays out.
- Yeah that's not me though.
- Girl that is everyone.
Because when we drink we do not
have control over how it's going to effect us.
Right, because once it gets in to our body,
and it starts effecting us then it starts
to change the way we act
and interact, like I just said.
But, I mean that could be what you're noticing
about your friends, like going back to why
you came here in the first place,
to talk about your friends.
I think that when they start to see you acting
in a different way that's concerning,
that's worrying for them.
Because they want you to be safe.
It's not that they don't care about you.
It's that they care about you so much,
that they're concerned.
- My friends, they're always really judgmental.
And I know they care and they love me.
But gosh, they just never ease.
It's always, oh this, you're drinking this much,
or oh that you're drinking whatever.
I just want them to accept me.
They're just, they won't do that.
- Listen, I hear you, but I'm not here to judge you.
My job, my role here is to make sure
that you have the information so that you
can be of help to your friends,
or you can be of help to yourself,
in whatever capacity that, that makes sense for you.
So to make sure that you are safe around alcohol,
you know how to use it,
and you know use resources.
- So I was a D.A.R.E kid,
but I really don't remember anything about that.
So I guess I'm curious about,
what does alcohol really do to your body?
- I mean alcohol effects our nervous system,
our cognitive systems and our organs,
as I'm sure you already know,
and have probably seen it.
When you see somebody stumbling around.
Or when they almost walk in to something.
Or they slip right?
It's because their reaction times are slow.
Or they reduce coordination.
Their coordination is slowed, right?
So it's harder to see how far something
is in front of you.
Or to be able to make split second decisions.
So it impairs your vision, and your decision making.
What do you do to reduce the likelihood that you
get sick or, that you get to that uglier place,
with the alcohol that you were talking about?
Do you do anything to reduce that?
- Nothing at all I guess.
I do try to drink water at least once.
Or, snacks, I eat snacks sometimes.
- That's a really great start.
You have to eat carbs, and you have to drink water.
It's how much, so between every glass,
you should drink a glass of water.
Right, that's just normal.
And you should eat carbs all the way through.
I mean the heavy stuff.
Even if you're gluten free.
Like find gluten free pizza,
whatever the case may be.
Heavy carbs to sop up that alcohol.
Really you should only be having
a drink between every hour.
Like a drink, and then a glass of water.
Then another hour, a drink,
and another glass of water.
And that way you are slowing the effects
of having anything negative happen.
Does that help?
Another way is counting your drinks.
So I usually tell people, like bring
a little marker or even a lipstick,
whatever you have with you,
and just make marks on your hand.
Cause then you can visibly see,
how many drink you've had.
The last thing, listen to your friends.
We came here because you came to talk
about your friends, your friends know you.
And its good to like, set your limits
with them ahead of time.
Like be accountable, have them help
you be accountable to what you're drinking,
and what they're drinking.
So we've talked about how to reduce the negative
effects of alcohol and I also wonder,
do you know how to like pour a drink for yourself?
Or like, pour a drink for someone else,
so that you know that you're pouring
one standard drink each time?
- I have no idea how to do that.
- All right, my favorite part.
All we have to do, no real pressure,
is for you to pour me a perfect,
standard shot, from the vodka in to both
of these glasses to start, okay?
- Okay.
- All right, good job.
So now let's test to see how well you did.
This is actually, a double shot.
Actually, really this cup is more like
two point five.
So take a quick look, here we go.
So that's a shot, okay, so that's one.
Two.
And a little less than a half, spilled some.
So about two and a half is in this cup.
so let's take a look at the solo cup.
So as you can see,
there's a lot in there.
It actually has a built in shot,
right at the bottom.
- Oh
- This line here, is a built in shot.
So in this cup right now you have,
one,
two,
three,
four,
five.
You're way over.
That's about point one five zero,
blood alcohol content which means,
that impaired coordination, and impaired
like, visuals and nervous system being erupted,
kind of thing, that's one glass.
So if you've had two of these glasses,
with that amount of alcohol in it,
you are on your way to the hospital.
Okay, yeah so next we can talk about,
wine really quickly.
This big glass here a lot of people
like to have them because they're cute,
and they're kind of sexy, and they look nice.
Right but this is a much bigger wine glass
than a typical wine glass, right?
So you always want to go to about a quarter of a glass.
So lets see how well we did.
This is about five ounces here.
And it looks like that.
(upbeat music)
- Thank you Kris.
- Yeah.
- I really appreciate it.
- I know what we're going to do Saturday night.
- And what is that?
- We're seeing Lizzo.
- No way, we totally have to go!
- Oh we are, I got us our tickets.
But first, Friday night party.
- I don't really know if I'm up for all that.
Can we just sit by the pond instead?
- Sure.
(upbeat music)
- Bring it in.
- Last time I checked, you and I had beef girl,
what's going on?
- But you're here now, that means you must love me.
I knew it, I knew you loved me.
(upbeat music)