Alcohol Case study

Dante is a 21-year student at a local community college. He has a part-time job as a bartender at a local chain
restaurant in town where he bartends several nights a week. Dante meets up with his coworkers, as well as
classmates at a bar down the street from the community college after the restaurant closes most nights. While
he stays out until early morning hours most days, he very rarely skips classes and is maintaining a B/C
average in all of his courses. Dante drinks heavily every night of the week but never during the day and has
never been arrested for any alcohol-related crimes.
Early one morning, Dante wakes to a police flashlight shining into his car window where he is parked outside of
the bar he frequents. His car was in park and turned off, his car keys were in the ignition. Dante has given a
field breathalyzer and even though he had stopped drinking several hours earlier, his BAC registers at 0.11%.
Dante explains to the police officer that he must have gotten into his car drunk and decided to sleep it off rather
than drive home. He proudly states that he was making a responsible choice not to drive drunk. The officers
arrest Dante for an Attempted DUI, which states that you were presumed to have intended to drive since he
was in the driver’s seat with the keys in the ignition.
Dante’s lawyer suggests he visit an alcohol treatment clinic for an evaluation to use in their upcoming court
case. The clinic worker suggests that Dante is a functioning alcoholic and suggests treatment and entering AA.
Case Study Instructions
Please write the discussion using a strict 7th edition APA format. It must contain a title page and a reference
page. Please cite both articles and any other sources you used.
Write a paper of at least one page (double spaced with normal margins and font size, not including headers
and footers) discussing the case and the following questions:
Discuss your views on Dante’s alcohol use based on section 10.2’s discussion on alcohol trends in young
adulthood.
Using web based research on alcoholism, write your opinion on whether you agree with the clinic worker’s
label of Dante as a functional alcoholic.
What possible changes should Dante take in his personal life?