Jeffrey was a high school freshman who regularly seemed to be living on the edge. Jeffrey had an adventurous personality and usually wanted to do what his older brothers were doing. The key holdup with this was that all three of his brothers were at least 21 years old and were thusly able from a legal point of view to drive a vehicle and to drink alcohol.

Jeffrey, in spite of this, had a tough time accepting the reality that as a fifteen-year-old teen he should not be drinking alcoholic beverages. In fact, conversely, Jeffrey generally drank with his pals after school, predominantly on the weekends.

One weekend, Jeffrey made up his mind to drive around with some of his older guy friends. One of his friends was old enough to buy alcohol. After purchasing some beer, wine coolers, and wine, Jeffrey and all of his pals went to a park and drank for just about two hours.

A Young Man Becomes Unconscious

After drinking roughly ten alcoholic benerages, Jeffrey started to feel woozy and then threw up. When he passed out on the tennis court, one of his guy friends called 911 for immediate help. It was fortunate that the call for medical help was made because when his cronies went to the hospital to see Jeffrey, they found out that Jeffrey had been suffering from alcohol poisoning symptoms. Stated briefly, Jeffrey had overdosed on alcohol.

When Your Pals Drink Too Much

Jeffrey had learned that drinking in an excessive manner can result in an alcohol overdose but he never thought that this would ever affect him. After all, some of his pals often bragged that they could drink an entire case of beer in a few hours without going through any significant problems.

Based on this, Jeffrey was truthfully astonished to gather that he had overdosed on alcohol because he “only” had roughly ten drinks. When he articulated this to the attending healthcare practitioner at the hospital, conversely, the physicain told Jeffrey that drinking ten glasses of wine over a two or three hour period of time could surely be substantially more alcohol than can be processed by the body. The healthcare professional further stated how extreme amounts of alcohol can cause the brain to shut down a person’s respiratory system and that when this comes about, an individual can perish.

The First Warning of Abusive Drinking

This was the first forewarning to Jeffrey that he was drinking in a risky manner and that there are repercussions for such activities. The healthcare practitioner told Jeffrey that he was a lucky person because he almost perished from an alcohol overdose the night before.

The healthcare practitioner also had a word with Jeffrey’s parents and suggested that they get alcohol rehab for Jeffrey. His parents were overjoyed that Jeffrey was out of harm’s way and told the physicain that they would follow through on getting Jeffrey alcohol treatment.

While conversing with his parents, Jeffrey notified them that there must be a solid reason why he did not expire and that he felt grateful that he was still alive. He also informed his parents that the odd part about the entire drinking episode was that he had learned about alcohol poisoning last week at school in health class.

When Learning Something in Class Can Affect Your Life

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

Jeffrey informed his parents that he couldn’t wait to go back to school and apologize to Mr. Franklin for not paying more attention to a subject that was as noteworthy as learning about alcohol abuse and how to keep away from alcohol poisoning.

His parents smiled at Jeffrey and said that they were proud of the way he was being responsible for his destructive behavior. All he had to do now was to let this almost deadly experience make an impact his life in a constructive way so that he would never again go through an alcohol overdose.