A High School Student Drinks Excessively With His Friends, Suffers From An Alcohol Overdose, And Learns That Paying Attention In Class Can Make A Difference

Andy was a high school ninth grader who usually seemed to be living on the edge. Andy had a risk taking personality and regularly wanted to do what his older brothers were doing. The basic problem with this was that all three of his brothers were at least 21 years old and were therefore within their legal rights to drive a car or truck and to drink alcohol.

Andy, in spite of this, had a hard time comprehending that as a fifteen-year-old teenager he should not be drinking. In fact, however, Andy regularly drank with his friends after school, primarily on the weekends.

One weekend, Andy decided to drive around with some of his older guy friends. One of his guy friends was old enough to buy alcohol. After buying some beer, wine, and wine coolers, Andy and all of the guys went to a park and drank for approximately two or three hours.

After drinking around ten alcoholic beverages, Andy started to feel nauseous and then threw up. When he passed out on the baseball field, one of his buddies called 911 for immediate medical assistance. It was fortunate that the call for emergency assistance was made because when his pals went to the hospital to see Andy, they discovered that Andy had been exhibiting alcohol poisoning symptoms. More to the point, Andy had experienced an alcohol overdose.

After receiving alcohol poisoning treatment, Andy was actually amazed to gather that he had overdosed on alcohol because he "only" had around five or ten alcoholic beverages. When he told this to the attending physician at the hospital, conversely, the physician told Andy that drinking five or ten bottles of beer over a two or three hour period of time could surely be substantially more alcohol than can be metabolized by the body. The doctor further explained how extreme amounts of alcohol can cause the brain to shut down a person's respiratory system and that when this happens, a person can pass away.

This was the first sign to Andy that he was drinking in a perilous manner and that there are consequences for such actions. The physician told Andy that he was a lucky young man because he almost died from alcohol poisoning the night before.

The healthcare professional also conversed with Andy's parents and suggested that they get alcohol rehab for Andy. His parents were thrilled that Andy was all right and told the physician that they would follow through on getting Andy alcohol rehab.

While talking to his parents, Andy notified them that there must be a good reason why he did not die and that he felt a sense of thanksgiving that he was still alive. He also told 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. Johnson's health class.

At the time, what his health teacher, Mr. Johnson, was articulating didn't seem to make too much sense to Andy. Now that he almost passed away, however, he felt that he should have listened more closely in class and applied what he had learned to his personal life.

Andy informed his parents that he couldn't wait to go to school and make an apology to Mr. Johnson for not paying more attention to something that was as pertinent as learning about alcohol poisoning.

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