Dear Eric: I’m writing because something bad happened to my friend and I might have been able to prevent it.

On my friend’s 21st birthday we met up at a party and started drinking. She drank a lot but seemed to be having fun.

Around 10 p.m. I decided to leave because I was tired. I asked if she was OK to get home and she said yes, but she was clearly drunk.

Then I went home.

Fast-forward to the next day when she called me from some older man’s house who she didn’t remember meeting. She was very stressed about it (he had to be in his 40s).

I’m wondering what the right thing to do was in that situation. She says it’s “no big deal”, but I don’t think it’s “nothing” at all.

On the one hand, I think we should be responsible for ourselves as adults. On the other: she was drunk, and I basic

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