When Alcohol Poisoning Serves as a Wakeup Call for a Teenager

Posted on September 15, 2009
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Jeffrey was a high school ninth grader who typically seemed to be living on the edge. Jeffrey had an adventurous personality and typically wanted to do what his older brothers were doing to have fun. The basic holdup with this was that all three of his brothers were at least 21 years old and were therefore legally able to operate a car or truck and to drink alcohol.

Jeffrey, nevertheless, had a tough time grasping the fact that as a fifteen-year-old teenager he should not be drinking. In fact, in spite of this, Jeffrey normally drank with his pals after school, predominantly on the weekends.

One weekend, Jeffrey decided to drive around with some of his older guy friends. One of his buddies was old enough to buy alcohol. After purchasing some wine coolers, wine, and beer, Jeffrey and all of the guys went to a public recreational area and drank for roughly two or three hours.

A Young Man Loses Consciousness

After drinking approximately ten glasses of wine, Jeffrey started to feel queasy and then threw up. When he became unconscious on the soccer field, one of his 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 found out that Jeffrey had been manifesting alcohol poisoning symptoms. Stated briefly, Jeffrey had experienced a case of alcohol poisoning.

When Your Pals Drink Abusively

Jeffrey had heard that drinking in an abusive manner can result in alcohol poisoning but he never thought that this could ever affect him. After all, some of his cronies frequently articulated that they could drink an entire case of beer in a day without experiencing any serious problems.

Armed with this information, Jeffrey was frankly taken aback to discover that he had overdosed on alcohol because he “only” had more or less ten alcoholic beverages. When he explained this to the attending healthcare practitioner at the hospital, on the other hand, the physicain notified Jeffrey that drinking ten alcoholic beverages over a two or three hour period of time could actually be substantially more alcohol than can be metabolized by the body. The physicain further emphasized how excessive alcohol can cause the brain to shut down an individual’s respiratory system and that when this transpires, an individual can die.

The First Symptom of Abusive Drinking

This was the first cautionary message to Jeffrey that he was drinking in an unsafe manner and that there are ramifications for such behavior. The physicain told Jeffrey that he was a lucky young man because he almost died from an alcohol overdose the night before.

The physicain also talked to Jeffrey’s parents and suggested that they get alcohol counseling for Jeffrey. His parents were thrilled that Jeffrey was out of harm’s way and told the physicain that they would follow through on getting Jeffrey alcohol rehabilitation.

While talking to his parents, Jeffrey notified them that there must be a good reason why he did not pass away and that he felt grateful that he was still alive. He also informed his parents that the peculiar part about the entire drinking situation was that he had learned about alcohol poisoning the last six week grading period in health class.

When Listening in Class Can Change Your Life

At the time, what his health instructor, Mr. Franklin, was teaching didn’t seem to make too much sense to Jeffrey. Due to the fact that he almost passed away, then again, he felt that he should have listened more carefully in Mr. Franklin’s health class and applied what he had learned to his personal life.

Jeffrey notified 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 subject 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 thrilled with the way he was accepting responsibility for his harmful drinking activities. All he had to do now was to let this near fatal experience influence his life in a productive way so that he would never again go through a case of alcohol poisoning.

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