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Jeffrey was a ninth grader who commonly seemed to be living on the edge. Jeffrey had an adventurous personality and frequently wanted to do what his older brothers were doing for fun. The essential drawback with this was that all three of his brothers were at least 21 years old and were for than reason within their legal rights to operate a truck or car and to consume alcohol.

Jeffrey, in spite of this, had a hard time understanding that as a fifteen-year-old youth he should not be drinking alcoholic beverages. In fact, in spite of this, Jeffrey often drank with his friends after school, largely on the weekends.

One weekend, Jeffrey made up his mind to drive around with some of his older guy friends. One of his buddies was old enough to purchase alcohol. After buying some beer, wine, and wine coolers, Jeffrey and all of the guys went to a park and drank for roughly three hours.

Jeffrey Passes Out

After drinking roughly ten bottles of beer, Jeffrey started to feel queasy and then vomited. When he passed out on the soccer field, one of his cronies called 911 for immediate medical assistance. It was fortunate that the call for medical assistance was made because when his friends went to the hospital to see Jeffrey, they discovered that Jeffrey had been exhibiting alcohol poisoning symptoms. More precisely, Jeffrey had experienced an alcohol overdose.

When Your Cronies Drink Excessively

Jeffrey had learned that drinking too much can result in alcohol poisoning but he never thought that this could ever affect him. After all, some of his pals often boasted that they could drink twenty four or more bottles of beer in a couple of hours without feeling any serious setbacks.

Based on this, Jeffrey was in point of fact startled to find out that he had overdosed on alcohol because he “only” had approximately ten alcoholic beverages. When he told this to the attending healthcare practitioner at the hospital, on the other hand, the healthcare practitioner informed Jeffrey that drinking ten alcoholic beverages over a two or three hour period of time could certainly be substantially more alcohol than can be metabolized by the body. The healthcare professional further expressed how significant amounts of alcohol can cause the brain to shut down a person’s breathing and that when this happens, a person can perish.

The First Signal of Hazardous Drinking

This was the first word of warning to Jeffrey that he was drinking in a hazardous manner and that there is a price tag for such behavior. The healthcare practitioner told Jeffrey that he was a lucky person because he almost died from an alcohol overdose the previous night.

The doctor also conversed with Jeffrey’s parents and suggested that they get alcohol treatment for Jeffrey. His parents were ecstatic that Jeffrey was safe and told the physicain that they would look into getting Jeffrey alcohol therapy.

While conversing with his parents, Jeffrey told them that there must be a solid reason why he did not die and that he felt grateful that he was still alive. He also told his parents that the odd part about the entire drinking occurrence was that he had learned about alcohol poisoning the previous week in health class.

When Listening in Class Can Change Your Life

At the time, what his health instructor, Mr. Franklin, was teaching didn’t seem to make a lot of sense to Jeffrey. Since he almost passed away, conversely, he felt that he should have listened more closely in health class and applied what he had learned to his personal life.

Jeffrey told his parents that he couldn’t wait to go to school and express regret to Mr. Franklin for not showing more attention to something that was as noteworthy as learning about alcohol abuse and how to stay away from an alcohol overdose.

His parents smiled at Jeffrey and said that they were thrilled with the way he was being responsible for his dangerous drinking actions. All he had to do now was to let this life threatening experience influence his life in a productive manner so that he would never again experience a case of alcohol poisoning.

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