The Deadly Choking Game: Is Your Child Playing It? How Would You Know?
Parents, including a Pine-Richland father, tell their stories to raise awareness.
Second of two parts No public health agency or official organization tracks with certainty the number of U.S. children who die or are injured each year while engaging in the deadly activity known as the Choking Game. The most recent statistics on Choking Game-related deaths available from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are several years old and are gleaned from media reports. As is the case with the Allegheny County Medical Examiner's office, many county coroners or medical examiners do not keep specific statistics on these deaths or separate them from apparent suicides by hanging. Around the country, a handful of volunteer or nonprofit organizations rely on a mixture of official and anecdotal information, but …
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