Jeffrey was a high school ninth grader who typically seemed to be living on the edge. Jeffrey had a daring personality and frequently wanted to do what his older brothers were doing. The basic glitch with this was that all three of his brothers were at least 21 years old and were consequently within their legal rights to operate a truck or car and to drink alcohol.

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

One weekend, Jeffrey made up his mind to drive around with some of his older pals. One of his friends was old enough to buy alcohol. After buying some beer, wine coolers, and wine, Jeffrey and his pals went to a recreational area and drank for around two or three hours.

Jeffrey Experiences Alcohol Poisoning Symptoms

After drinking something like ten alcoholic benerages, Jeffrey started to feel nauseous and then threw up. When he became unconscious on the soccer field, one of his guy friends called 911 for immediate assistance. It was fortunate that the call for medical assistance was made because when his buddies went to the hospital to see Jeffrey, they were informed that Jeffrey had been manifesting alcohol poisoning symptoms. To be more specific, Jeffrey had experienced a case of alcohol poisoning.

When Your Buddies Drink Excessively

Jeffrey had learned that drinking heavily can result in alcohol poisoning but he never thought that this could ever affect him. After all, some of his pals recurrently bragged that they could drink two or three six packs of beer in a day without feeling any significant problems.

Armed with this information, Jeffrey was frankly taken aback to hear that he had overdosed on alcohol because he “only” had around ten alcoholic beverages. When he told this to the attending physicain at the hospital, nevertheless, the healthcare professional informed Jeffrey that drinking ten glasses of wine over a two or three hour time frame could in reality be quite a bit more alcohol than can be metabolized by the body. The doctor further expressed how extreme amounts of alcohol can cause the brain to shut down a person’s respiratory system and that when this happens, an individual can cease to exist.

The First Sign of Excessive Drinking

This was the first cautionary message to Jeffrey that he was drinking in a risky manner and that there are costs for such actions. The physicain told Jeffrey that he was a fortunate person because he almost lost his life from an alcohol overdose the previous night.

The healthcare practitioner also talked to Jeffrey’s parents and suggested that they get alcohol counseling for Jeffrey. His parents were overjoyed that Jeffrey was all right and notified the physicain that they would follow through on getting Jeffrey alcohol rehabilitation.

While speaking to his parents, Jeffrey notified them that there must be a good reason why he did not pass away and that he felt thankful that he was still alive. He also notified his parents that the strangest part about the entire drinking event was that he had learned about alcohol poisoning the last six week grading period in health class.

When Learning Something in Class Can Affect Your Life

At the time, what his health teacher, Mr. Franklin, was teaching didn’t seem to make too much sense to Jeffrey. Now that he almost passed away, nevertheless, he felt that he should have listened more carefully in health class and applied what he had learned to his life.

Jeffrey notified his parents that he couldn’t wait to go back to Mr. Franklin’s classroom and apologize to Mr. Franklin for not demonstrating more attention to a subject that was as pertinent 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 accepting responsibility for his unsafe drinking behavior. All he had to do now was to let this almost deadly experience change his life in a constructive way so that he would never again go through an alcohol overdose.