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Show FEATURE 4 Drinking tea and partying sober I hasib hussainzada STAFF REPORTER The last thing Grady Mellin, jj senior physics major, said he could remember from the party he attended the night before he decided to pursue sobriety was drinking beer a lot of beer. He said he drank a lot when he went home for the 2015 summer break. One beer is good, two beers are twice as good, and 10 beers are ten times as good, said Mellin who prefers to be called by his first name, Grady. Its not the way it works, but its the way my brain personally processes alcohol. About 50 percent of college students binge drink, according to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Although there are major health risks with binge drinking, some college students may not consider it a problem. Thirteen months and 12 days later, a now a recovering alcoholic still the life of the party. College is far from an easy envi- Grady ronment to practice sobriety, said Alexander Arnis, a junior economics major and Gradys roomBut somemate. how Grady manages to partake in every social event, just drinking tea instead of alcohol." Some of Gradys best friends from school also high came to Westminster, including John is Grady thinks in ways that I would never think. He is extremely intelligent. H o w e v -er, Wilcox said WHEN YOU DRINK AN EXCESSIVE AMOUNT OF ALCOHOL, ALL OF YOUR CONSCIENCE Grady becomes a different person when he drinks. I have seen Grady just down 17 cups of fucking beer and a half bag of wine, Wilcox GOES OUT THE said. Obviously, you are not going to WINDOW. drink that much and not fucking MELLIN Senior Phyics Major vomit. Grady vomited the most I had ever seen out of any person. He just projectile-v- nn GRADY Wilcox, a junior finance major. Grady is an eccentric and outgoing character, and I love it, Wilcox said. omited everywhere. That was the peak of Gradys alcohol consumption, Wilcox said. Grady got so drunk one time that he forgot who I was, said Cian Bremer, a junior business marketing and aviation management major, who grew up with Grady in Henniker, New Hampshire. That is when I realized that he had a problem with drinking. Grady: I am done. Get off this car, you stupid idiot, Grady said he remembers the police ordering, banging on the window. Grady woke up, disoriented. I had no idea where I was, he said. A few days after the arrest, Grady said he suddenly made the decision to become sober. It literally blows my mind, he said. I had no idea this was possible. But its completely is possible. Grady said he decided to stop drinking because alcohol consumption led him to bad situations. |