A High School Student Suffers From An Alcohol Overdose

Jeffrey was a high school ninth grader who regularly seemed to be living on the edge. Jeffrey had an adventurous personality and commonly wanted to do what his older brothers were doing to have fun. The underlying difficulty with this was that all three of his brothers were at least 21 years old and were as a result able from a legal point of view to operate a vehicle and to drink alcohol.

Jeffrey, then again, had a hard time grasping the fact that as a fifteen-year-old person he should not be drinking. In fact, then again, Jeffrey usually drank with his cronies after school, predominantly on the weekends.

One weekend, Jeffrey decided to drive around with some of his older guy friends. One of his friends was old enough to purchase alcohol. After purchasing some wine, beer, and wine coolers, Jeffrey and all of his buddies went to a recreational area and drank for just about two hours.

A Young Man Becomes Unconscious

After drinking approximately ten bottles of beer, Jeffrey started to feel nauseous and then threw up. When he lost consciousness on the football field, one of his buddies called 911 for immediate help. It was fortunate that the call for emergency help was made because when his cronies went to the hospital to see Jeffrey, they discovered that Jeffrey had been manifesting alcohol poisoning symptoms. To be more specific, Jeffrey had experienced an alcohol overdose.

When Your Buddies Drink Excessively

Jeffrey had learned that drinking in a hazardous manner can lead to an alcohol overdose but he never thought that this could happen to him. After all, some of his buddies frequently declared that they could drink twenty or more cans of beer in a couple of hours without going through any major setbacks.

Armed with this information, Jeffrey was truthfully astonished to find out that he had overdosed on alcohol because he “only” had about ten alcoholic beverages. When he stated this to the attending physicain at the hospital, in spite of this, the doctor notified Jeffrey that drinking ten wine coolers over a two or three hour period of time could actually be quite a bit more alcohol than can be metabolized by the body. The healthcare professional further stated how extreme amounts of alcohol can cause the brain to shut down an individual’s respiratory system and that when this comes about, an individual can expire.

The First Warning of Abusive Drinking

This was the first sign to Jeffrey that he was drinking in a harmful manner and that there is a price tag for such behavior. The healthcare practitioner told Jeffrey that he was a lucky young man 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 elated that Jeffrey was safe and sound and notified the doctor that they would follow through on getting Jeffrey alcohol counseling.

While talking to his parents, Jeffrey informed them that there must be a solid reason why he did not expire and that he felt thankful that he was still alive. He also told his parents that the peculiar part about the entire drinking occurrence was that he had learned about alcohol poisoning last week at school in Mr. Franklin’s 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. Since he almost died, conversely, he felt that he should have listened more intently in health class and applied what he had learned to his life.

Jeffrey told 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 topic that was as significant as learning about alcohol abuse and how to steer clear of an alcohol overdose.

His parents smiled at Jeffrey and said that they were overjoyed with the way he was taking responsibility for his unsafe drinking activities. All he had to do now was to let this near fatal experience impact his life in a constructive way so that he would never again go through a case of alcohol poisoning.