Jeffrey was a high school freshman who commonly seemed to be living on the edge. Jeffrey had a daring personality and usually wanted to do what his older brothers were doing to have fun. The fundamental glitch with this was that all three of his brothers were at least 21 years old and were therefore able from a legal perspective to drive a car and to consume alcohol.
Jeffrey, then again, had a tough time figuring out that as a fifteen-year-old individual he should not be drinking alcoholic beverages. In fact, on the other hand, Jeffrey frequently drank with his cronies after school, especially on the weekends.
One weekend, Jeffrey was invited to drive around with some of his older guy friends. One of his cronies was old enough to buy alcohol. After purchasing some wine coolers, wine, and beer, Jeffrey and his buddies went to a recreational area and drank for roughly three hours.
A Young Man Loses Consciousness
After drinking something like ten alcoholic benerages, Jeffrey started to feel queasy and then threw up. When he lost consciousness on the basketball court, one of his friends called 911 for immediate assistance. It was fortunate that the call for emergency assistance was made because when his pals went to the hospital to see Jeffrey, they found out that Jeffrey had been showing evidence of alcohol poisoning symptoms. In short, Jeffrey had experienced an alcohol overdose.
When Your Friends Drink Too Much
Jeffrey had learned that drinking in an excessive manner can lead to an alcohol overdose but he never thought that this would ever happen to him. After all, some of his cronies frequently argued that they could drink twenty four or more cans of beer in a few hours without going through any serious difficulties.
Based on this, Jeffrey was frankly taken aback to learn that he had overdosed on alcohol because he “only” had around ten drinks. When he told this to the attending doctor at the hospital, however, the doctor informed Jeffrey that drinking ten glasses of wine over a two or three hour time frame could in fact be significantly more alcohol than can be processed by the body. The doctor further emphasized how extreme amounts of alcohol can cause the brain to shut down an individual’s respiratory system and that when this takes place, an individual can perish.
The First Signal of Excessive Drinking
This was the first sign to Jeffrey that he was drinking in a dangerous fashion and that there are consequences for such deeds. The physicain told Jeffrey that he was a lucky individual because he almost lost his life from an alcohol overdose the previous night.
The doctor also had a word with Jeffrey’s parents and suggested that they get alcohol therapy for Jeffrey. His parents were jubilant that Jeffrey was safe and sound and informed the physicain that they would get Jeffrey alcohol treatment.
While conversing with his parents, Jeffrey informed them that there must be a good reason why he did not pass away and that he felt a sense of thankfulness that he was still alive. He also notified his parents that the strangest part about the entire drinking situation was that he had learned about alcohol poisoning last week at school in Mr. Franklin’s health class.
When Listening in Class Can Change Your Life
At the time, what his health teacher, Mr. Franklin, was articulating didn’t seem to make a lot of sense to Jeffrey. Since he almost died, in spite of this, he felt that he should have listened more closely in health class and applied what he had learned to his daily living.
Jeffrey told his parents that he couldn’t wait to go back to school and express regret to Mr. Franklin for not paying better attention to something that was as significant as learning about alcohol abuse and how to avoid an alcohol overdose.
His parents smiled at Jeffrey and said that they were thrilled with the way he was being accountable for his unsafe drinking activities. All he had to do now was to let this near-death experience have an effect on his life in a beneficial way so that he would never again experience a case of alcohol poisoning.
