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Unintentional Strangulation Deaths from the “Choking Game” Among Youths Aged 6 – 19 Years – United States, 1995 – 2007
The “choking game” is defined as self-strangulation or strangulation by another person with the hands or a noose to achieve a brief euphoric state caused by cerebral hypoxia. Participants in this activity typically are youths (1). Serious neurologic injury or death can result if strangulation is prolonged.
Parents, educators, and health-care providers should become familiar with warning signs that youths are playing the choking game.
Death certificates lack the detail necessary to distinguish choking-game deaths from other unintentional strangulation deaths
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The Choking Game Can Be Deadly – CDC Podcast by Dr. Robin Toblin – 2008
Click here to listen to this CDC Podcast
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“Choking Game” Awareness and Participation Among 8th Graders – Oregon, 2008
The Oregon Healthy Teens survey, an annual population-based anonymous survey* of 8th and 11th graders† designed to monitor and measure adolescent health and well-being, is based on the CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) and includes questions on physical and mental health, sexual activity, substance use, physical activity/nutrition, and community characteristics.
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Nobody Wins This Game
Dr. Robert Gaynes – CDC Podcast Transcription
“Choking Game” Awareness and Participation Among 8th Graders — Oregon, 2008
Recorded: February 9, 2010; posted February 11, 2010.