A High School Student Drinks Excessively With His Pals, Experiences Alcohol Poisoning, And Learns That Learning Something In Class Can Make A Difference

Andy was a high school freshman who usually seemed to be living on the edge. Andy had a daring personality and frequently wanted to do what his older brothers were doing. The basic difficulty with this was that all three of his brothers were at least 21 years old and were as a consequence legally allowed to operate a car and to drink alcohol.

Andy, nevertheless, had a tough time accepting the fact that as a fifteen-year-old teenager he should not be drinking. In fact, then again, Andy often drank with his pals after school, predominantly on the weekends.

One weekend, Andy decided to drive around with some of his older buddies. One of his cronies was old enough to buy alcohol. After buying some wine, beer, and wine coolers, Andy and all of his cronies went to a park and drank for something like three hours.

After drinking around seven glasses of wine, Andy started to feel nauseous and then threw up. When he passed out on the tennis court, one of his guy friends called 911 for immediate help. It was fortunate that the call for medical assistance was made because when his friends went to the hospital to see Andy, they were told that Andy had been manifesting alcohol poisoning symptoms. More to the point, Andy had experienced an alcohol overdose.

After getting alcohol poisoning treatment, Andy was quite startled to discover that he had overdosed on alcohol because he "only" had around five or ten drinks. When he articulated this to the attending physician at the hospital, conversely, the physician notified Andy that drinking five or ten cans of beer over a two or three hour time frame could in fact be substantially more alcohol than can be processed by the body. The healthcare practitioner further stated how extreme amounts of alcohol can cause the brain to shut down a person's breathing and that when this takes place, an individual can cease to exist.

This was the first sign to Andy that he was drinking in an unsafe fashion and that there are effects for such actions. The physician told Andy that he was a fortunate young man because he almost perished from an alcohol overdose the night before.

The doctor also spoke to Andy's parents and suggested that they get alcohol counseling for Andy. His parents were thrilled that Andy was all right and notified the physician that they would get Andy alcohol treatment.

While talking to his parents, Andy informed them that there must be a special 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 odd part about the entire drinking situation was that he had learned about alcohol poisoning the previous six week grading period in health class at school.

At the time, what his health teacher, Mr. Johnson, was teaching didn't seem to make a lot of sense to Andy. Now that he almost passed away, on the other hand, he felt that he should have listened more attentively in class and applied what he had learned to his daily living.

Andy notified his parents that he couldn't wait to go to school and express regret to Mr. Johnson for not displaying more attention to something that was as pertinent as learning about alcohol poisoning.

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