A Ninth Grader Suffers From An Alcohol Overdose

Jeffrey was a ninth grader who typically seemed to be living on the edge.  Jeffrey had a risk taking personality and commonly wanted to do what his older brothers were doing. The central glitch with this was that all three of his brothers were at least 21 years old and were as a consequence able from a legal framework to operate a car and to drink alcohol. 

Jeffrey, however, had a rough time accepting the reality that as a fifteen-year-old adolescent he should not be drinking. In fact, on the other hand, Jeffrey regularly drank with his high school friends after school, especially on the weekends.

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

A Young Man Loses Consciousness

After drinking something like ten glasses of wine, Jeffrey started to feel queasy and then threw up. When he lost consciousness on the soccer field, one of his pals 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 learned that Jeffrey had been manifesting alcohol poisoning symptoms.  More specifically, Jeffrey had experienced an alcohol overdose.

When Your Buddies Drink Abusively

Jeffrey had heard that drinking excessively can result in alcohol poisoning but he never thought that this could happen to him. After all, some of his friends time and again declared that they could drink twenty or more cans of beer in a couple of hours without going through any major problems.

Armed with this information, Jeffrey was truthfully flabbergasted to learn 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, then again, the doctor told Jeffrey that drinking ten wine coolers over a two or three hour period of time could in fact be substantially more alcohol than can be processed by the body.  The healthcare professional further articulated how too much alcohol can cause the brain to shut down an individual’s breathing and that when this occurs, an individual can die.

The First Warning of Abusive Drinking

This was the first indication to Jeffrey that he was drinking in a harmful way and that there are effects for such behavior.  The physicain told Jeffrey that he was a fortunate young man because he almost perished from an alcohol overdose the night before.

The healthcare professional also conversed with Jeffrey’s parents and suggested that they get alcohol rehabilitation for Jeffrey.  His parents were delighted that Jeffrey was safe and informed the healthcare practitioner that they would get Jeffrey alcohol therapy.

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

When Learning Something in Class Can Affect Your Life

At the time, what his health instructor, Mr. Franklin, was saying didn’t seem to make a lot of sense to Jeffrey.  Now that he almost passed away, in spite of this, he felt that he should have listened more thoroughly in 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 express regret to Mr. Franklin for not paying more attention to a topic that was as relevant as learning about alcohol abuse and how to avoid alcohol poisoning.

His parents smiled at Jeffrey and said that they were pleased with the way he was being responsible for his injurious behavior.  All he had to do now was to let this near fatal experience make an impact his life in a beneficial manner so that he would never again experience an alcohol overdose.

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