Very very true. My boyfriend get's dizzy and lightheaded after having a small amount of caffeine. It just doesn't work well for him. Like you said, everyone reacts different to things. Personally, I couldn't imagine life without my morning coffee. :P
I do think the news headlines and the coroner could have found a better way to phrase things, since I take the phrase caffeine overdose to require a little more extreme consumption like dozens of cups of coffee, energy drinks, pills, etc, compared to what they said the kid had (one soda, one latte, and one energy drink.) But largely that's just a semantic thing at that point.