Cheshire Police chiefs issued a stark warning over the number of youths drinking alcohol and putting their lives at risk.
They say officers are responding to incidents involving underage drinking, with some youngsters found passed out on the street.
Now they are calling for parents, teachers and other adults to educate young people about the harm booze can cause.
Assistant Chief Constable Ruth Purdie said: “Officers deliver messages to parents that their child′s life is hanging by a thread because of alcohol poisoning and it is just not acceptable.
“Would you willingly provide money or allow young people in your care or their friends to buy drugs and take enough of them to poison their body and put their life in danger?
“Alcohol acts like a drug in young people’s bodies because they are not developed enough to cope with the side effects.
“It causes anxiety, slowed breathing and heartbeat, and loss of consciousness. Young people can suffocate on their own vomit, it leaves them vulnerable and clouds their ability to think, putting them at risk… it can have fatal consequences.
“Research has shown the most common place for alcohol to be accessed is the home. Parents have a responsibility to make sure their children can′t get hold of it.
“We need to act now to ensure today′s young generation understand the harm they are doing to themselves.
“I do not want my officers turning up at a school or someone′s home delivering the message that a young person has died because of the amount of alcohol they have drunk.”
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