Jeffrey was a high school freshman who typically seemed to be living on the edge. Jeffrey had an adventurous personality and regularly wanted to do what his older brothers were doing to have fun. The central problem with this was that all three of his brothers were at least 21 years old and were therefore legally allowed to drive a vehicle and to drink alcohol.
Jeffrey, conversely, had a difficult time understanding that as a fifteen-year-old young man he should not be drinking. In fact, conversely, Jeffrey commonly drank with his guy friends after school, particularly on the weekends.
One weekend, Jeffrey was invited to drive around with some of his older pals. One of his pals was old enough to purchase alcohol. After buying some beer, wine, and wine coolers, Jeffrey and his friends went to a public recreational area and drank for approximately three hours.
Jeffrey Experiences Alcohol Poisoning Symptoms
After drinking around ten wine coolers, Jeffrey started to feel queasy and then vomited. When he lost consciousness on the soccer field, one of his guy friends called 911 for immediate medical assistance. It was fortunate that the call for medical help was made because when his cronies went to the hospital to see Jeffrey, they were notified that Jeffrey had been showing evidence of alcohol poisoning symptoms. More to the point, Jeffrey had overdosed on alcohol.
When Your Cronies Drink Abusively
Jeffrey had heard that drinking abusively can lead to an alcohol overdose but he never thought that this would affect him. After all, some of his pals often stated that they could drink twenty or more cans of beer in one day without suffering from any critical setbacks.
Armed with this information, Jeffrey was truthfully startled to realize that he had overdosed on alcohol because he “only” had around ten alcoholic beverages. When he told this to the attending healthcare professional at the hospital, nevertheless, the healthcare professional told Jeffrey that drinking ten alcoholic beverages over a two or three hour time frame could actually be quite a bit more alcohol than can be processed by the body. The doctor further stated how significant amounts of alcohol can cause the brain to shut down a person’s breathing and that when this takes place, a person can perish.
The First Signal of Hazardous Drinking
This was the first cautionary message to Jeffrey that he was drinking in a perilous fashion and that there are costs for such behavior. The healthcare practitioner told Jeffrey that he was a lucky young man because he almost perished from an alcohol overdose the previous night.
The healthcare professional also had a word with Jeffrey’s parents and suggested that they get alcohol rehabilitation for Jeffrey. His parents were overjoyed that Jeffrey was safe and told the physicain that they would follow through on getting Jeffrey alcohol rehab.
While speaking to his parents, Jeffrey notified them that there must be a good reason why he did not expire and that he felt thankful that he was still alive. He also notified his parents that the peculiar part about the entire drinking occurrence was that he had learned about alcohol poisoning last week at school.
When Listening in Class Can Make a Difference
At the time, what his health teacher, Mr. Franklin, was teaching didn’t seem to make a lot of sense to Jeffrey. Due to the fact that he almost died, in spite of this, he felt that he should have listened more attentively in class and applied what he had learned to his life.
Jeffrey told his parents that he couldn’t wait to go back to school and make an apology to Mr. Franklin for not displaying more attention to a subject that was as significant as learning about alcohol abuse and how to keep away from an alcohol overdose.
His parents smiled at Jeffrey and said that they were thrilled with the way he was taking responsibility for his risky drinking actions and the way he was using this negative experience to enhance his self esteem. All he had to do now was to let this life threatening experience influence his life in a constructive way so that he would be motivated and inspired to never again go through a case of alcohol poisoning.