Jeffrey was a ninth grader who regularly seemed to be living on the edge. Jeffrey had a daring personality and usually wanted to do what his older brothers were doing for fun. The central drawback with this was that all three of his brothers were at least 21 years old and were for than reason able from a legal point of view to operate a car or truck and to consume alcohol.

Jeffrey, on the other hand, had a rough time understanding the fact that as a fifteen-year-old young man he should not be drinking alcoholic beverages. In fact, however, Jeffrey often drank with his friends after school, especially on the weekends.

One weekend, Jeffrey was invited to drive around with some of his older friends. One of his guy friends was old enough to purchase alcohol. After purchasing some beer, wine, and wine coolers, Jeffrey and all of his buddies went to a park and drank for something like two hours.

Jeffrey Experiences Alcohol Poisoning Symptoms

After drinking more or less ten glasses of wine, Jeffrey started to feel nauseous and then vomited. When he became unconscious on the baseball field, one of his pals called 911 for help. It was fortunate that the call for medical assistance was made because when his buddies went to the hospital to see Jeffrey, they learned that Jeffrey had been going through alcohol poisoning symptoms. Stated briefly, Jeffrey had overdosed on alcohol.

When Your Friends Drink Excessively

Jeffrey had learned that drinking in a hazardous manner can result in an alcohol overdose but he never thought that this could ever happen to him. After all, some of his pals over and over again bragged that they could drink an entire case of beer in one day without suffering from any serious difficulties.

Armed with this information, Jeffrey was actually taken aback to learn that he had overdosed on alcohol because he “only” had approximately ten drinks. When he explained this to the attending doctor at the hospital, in spite of this, the healthcare practitioner notified Jeffrey that drinking ten alcoholic beverages over a two or three hour period of time could surely be quite a bit more alcohol than can be metabolized by the body. The healthcare practitioner further articulated how too much alcohol can cause the brain to shut down a person’s respiratory system and that when this occurs, a person can expire.

The First Symptom of Abusive Drinking

This was the first cautionary message to Jeffrey that he was drinking in a harmful fashion and that there are ramifications for such activities. The doctor told Jeffrey that he was a fortunate person because he almost died from an alcohol overdose the previous night.

The healthcare practitioner also spoke to Jeffrey’s parents and suggested that they get alcohol counseling for Jeffrey. His parents were pleased that Jeffrey was out of harm’s way and informed the healthcare practitioner that they would get Jeffrey alcohol counseling.

While talking to his parents, Jeffrey told them that there must be a solid reason why he did not die and that he felt thankful that he was still alive. He also notified his parents that the weirdest part about the entire drinking episode was that he had learned about alcohol poisoning the last six week grading period at school in Mr. Franklin’s health class.

When Paying Attention in Class Can Change Your Life

At the time, what his health instructor, Mr. Franklin, was articulating didn’t seem to make too much sense to Jeffrey. Now that he almost died, on the other hand, he felt that he should have listened more intently in class and applied what he had learned to his personal life.

Jeffrey informed his parents that he couldn’t wait to go to Mr. Franklin’s classroom and apologize to Mr. Franklin for not displaying more attention to a subject that was as noteworthy as learning about alcohol abuse and how to avoid alcohol poisoning.

His parents smiled at Jeffrey and said that they were overjoyed with the way he was being responsible for his destructive actions. All he had to do now was to let this near fatal experience change his life in a productive manner so that he would never again suffer from an alcohol overdose.

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