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Andy was a ninth grader who frequently seemed to be living on the edge. Andy had a risk taking personality and regularly wanted to do what his older brothers were doing for fun. The fundamental glitch with this was that all three of his brothers were at least 21 years old and were as a consequence able from a legal point of view to drive a car and to consume alcohol.

Andy, in spite of this, had a hard time grasping the fact that as a fifteen-year-old young man he should not be drinking alcoholic beverages. In fact, then again, Andy generally drank with his guy friends after school, particularly on the weekends.

One weekend, Andy was invited to drive around with some of his older guy friends. One of his friends was old enough to purchase alcohol. After buying some wine coolers, wine, and beer, Andy and all of his cronies went to a public recreational area and drank for approximately two hours.

After drinking more or less ten alcoholic beverages, Andy started to feel woozy and then threw up. When he lost consciousness on the tennis court, one of his drinking pals called 911 for immediate medical assistance. It was fortunate that the call for medical help was made because when his pals went to the hospital to see Andy, they learned that Andy had been showing evidence of alcohol poisoning symptoms. More specifically, Andy had suffered through an alcohol overdose.

After getting alcohol poisoning treatment, Andy was truthfully flabbergasted to discover that he had overdosed on alcohol because he "only" had more or less five or ten alcoholic beverages. When he told this to the attending healthcare practitioner at the hospital, then again, the healthcare practitioner notified Andy that drinking five or ten wine coolers over a two or three hour period of time could in reality be significantly more alcohol than can be metabolized by the body. The doctor further verbalized how extreme amounts of alcohol can cause the brain to shut down an individual's breathing and that when this transpires, a person can expire.

This was the first word of warning to Andy that he was drinking in a perilous way and that there are costs for such actions. The healthcare practitioner told Andy that he was a fortunate individual because he almost died from an alcohol overdose the previous night.

The healthcare professional also conversed with Andy's parents and suggested that they get alcohol therapy for Andy. His parents were elated that Andy was out of harm's way and notified the healthcare professional that they would follow through on getting Andy alcohol therapy.

While conversing with his parents, Andy notified them that there must be a solid reason why he did not expire and that he was grateful that he was still alive. He also informed his parents that the odd part about the entire drinking event was that he had learned about alcohol poisoning last week at school.

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

Andy told his parents that he couldn't wait to go back to Mr. Johnson's classroom and make an apology to Mr. Johnson for not paying better attention to a topic that was as pertinent as learning about alcohol poisoning.

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