Jeffrey was a high school ninth grader who typically seemed to be living on the edge. Jeffrey had a risk taking personality and generally wanted to do what his older brothers were doing for fun. The primary glitch with this was that all three of his brothers were at least 21 years old and were thusly within their legal rights to drive a car and to drink alcohol.

Jeffrey, conversely, had a rough time accepting the actuality that as a fifteen-year-old person he should not be drinking. In fact, on the other hand, Jeffrey regularly drank with his friends after school, predominantly on the weekends.

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

A Young Man Loses Consciousness

After drinking more or less ten wine coolers, 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 assistance. It was fortunate that the call for medical assistance was made because when his cronies went to the hospital to see Jeffrey, they learned that Jeffrey had been suffering from alcohol poisoning symptoms. Simply put, Jeffrey had experienced an alcohol overdose.

When Your Cronies Drink Abusively

Jeffrey had learned that drinking excessively can result in alcohol poisoning but he never thought that this could affect him. After all, some of his buddies time after time articulated that they could drink twenty or more bottles of beer at one sitting without feeling any significant problems.

Based on this, Jeffrey was truthfully flabbergasted to gather that he had overdosed on alcohol because he “only” had more or less ten drinks. When he explained this to the attending healthcare professional at the hospital, in spite of this, the healthcare practitioner notified Jeffrey that drinking ten wine coolers over a two or three hour period of time could surely be quite a bit more alcohol than can be processed by the body. The doctor further emphasized how significant amounts of alcohol can cause the brain to shut down an individual’s breathing and that when this occurs, an individual can expire.

The First Warning of Abusive Drinking

This was the first cautionary message to Jeffrey that he was drinking in a perilous fashion and that there are repercussions for such deeds. The healthcare professional told Jeffrey that he was a lucky 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 treatment for Jeffrey. His parents were overjoyed that Jeffrey was all right and informed the doctor that they would follow through on getting Jeffrey alcohol counseling.

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 told his parents that the strangest part about the entire drinking event was that he had learned about alcohol poisoning the past week at school in Mr. Franklin’s health class.

When Paying Attention in Class Can Affect Your Life

At the time, what his health teacher, Mr. Franklin, was articulating didn’t seem to make a lot of sense to Jeffrey. Due to the fact that he almost died, nevertheless, he felt that he should have listened more carefully in Mr. Franklin’s health class and applied what he had learned to his life.

Jeffrey told his parents that he couldn’t wait to go to Mr. Franklin’s classroom and apologize to Mr. Franklin for not paying better attention to something that was as relevant as learning about alcohol abuse and how to stay away from an alcohol overdose.

His parents smiled at Jeffrey and said that they were pleased with the way he was being accountable for his unsafe actions. All he had to do now was to let this almost deadly experience impact his life in a beneficial way so that he would never again go through an alcohol overdose.