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What Parents Need to Know About the Choking Game

Posted: June 1st, 2010 Filed under: Audio Podcasts, Women's Health

It seems like every day you see reports of children and teens dying from a potentially deadly activity designed to offer a fleeting high. It’s called the choking game, where children are choking themselves to the point of unconsciousness for a tingling sensation, not unlike a drug-induced high. Douglas Smith, program director for Christiana Care Health System’s Rosenblum Child & Adolescent Health Center, offers a better understand of the choking game including how to recognize the warning signs of this dangerous activity.

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