Video clips of teens playing dangerous games are easily accessible on many social media sites. Richard Drury/DigitalVision via Getty Images The “choking game” has potentially deadly consequences, as ...

YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — Yokota Middle School officials last week began an effort to stop teens from experimenting with “the choking game” after discovering some students were participating in ...

A Raleigh high school student is trying to warn teenagers about the dangers of the "choking game" that killed her childhood friend. Kris Marceno, a sophomore at Enloe High School, died Nov. 2 playing ...

ATLANTA — At least 82 youths have died from the so-called “choking game,” according to the first government count of fatalities from the tragic fad. In the game, children use dog leashes or bungee ...

CITYWIDE — Even if you’ve never heard of it, there’s a good chance your son or daughter has. Researchers say the “choking game,” a risky activity in which adolescents deprive their brains of oxygen by ...

ATLANTA – At least 82 youth have died as a result of playing what has been called “the choking game,” according to a study released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in today’s ...

A New Jersey school superintendent said a child recently died from a "choking game," where students seek euphoria by briefly stopping oxygen from reaching the brain, Fox News reported. The victim, ...

Tired of ads? Subscribers enjoy a distraction-free reading experience. Click here to subscribe today or Login. Two years ago, Hayley Cunningham lost her cousin to a deadly game she’d never heard of.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Steven Wolterning, Texas A&M University and Paige Williams, Texas A&M University (THE ...