MONTREAL — For four years running, Val Filion wakes up on New Year’s Day to a familiar ringing sound.
“I have a friend who always ends up calling me from jail because he’s had too much alcohol,” she laughed.
“I opted out of his party this year.”
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Overindulgence is enough of a problem on New Year’s Eve that doctors at the MUHC are distributing pamphlets reminding revellers about alcohol concentrations in different kinds of drinks.
People “need to be aware that if they don’t want to suffer the next day,” said Dr. Sophie Gosselin of the Royal Victoria Hospital’s emergency room.
“They have to have a limit, and limit the total alcohol they drink.”
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Party drugs are also big on New Year’s Eve and Gosselin said many patients admitted to the hospital’s ER end up there because they take designer drugs like ecstasy without eating anything.
“Everything is always worse on an empty stomach.”
The Royal Vic said that it typically admits a couple dozen people for overindulging every New Year’s Eve.
With doctors warning partygoers to take it easier on New Year’s Eve, another vice gets a lot of attention, especially where resolutions are concerned — smoking cigarettes.
“Everybody seems to want to quit smoking, and usually they’re smoking by the 3rd of January again,” said Mark Donomme, who works at VapeKing in NDG, a recently opened store that sells vaping equipment.
“I’m really thinking a lot of people are going to come on in today.”
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Filion, whose gets the annual New Year’s phone call, is also a smoker. She makes the same resolution every New Year’s.
“I mean I end up quitting for about six months every year,” she said.
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