graphic lesson brings the real consequences of drugs and alcohol home to Central Texas teenagers Thursday.
Brackenridge Hospital ER is where parents and teachers don't want their kids to end up. That's just what happened last month, when five Lake Travis Middle School students were treated at Brackenridge after taking a combination of prescription and non-prescription pills given to them by a 13-year-old student.
One ER nurse, who knows this drama all too well, is giving some Austin middle school students a hard dose of reality.
"So this is the tube we use to put into your stomach. We put it into your nose like this, and then we push, and push," RN Linda Dutil said.
Thursday's lesson is drugs and alcohol 101.
Dutil isn't afraid to show the eighth graders the ugly truth about overdosing.
"In fact, sometimes you get what we call 'explosive diarrhea,'" Dutil said. "Diarrhea everywhere. All over his legs, all over the bed, all over the floor. Poor Kevin."
"The pictures sort of made me want to throw up, but it showed us how painful it would be," 8th grader Spencer Supancic said.
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