The Choking Game: Suffocating yourself to get high game

by JeffHuang | April 24, 2009 at 09:09 am

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The Choking Game: the game where teenagers intentionally induce a partial or complete loss of consciousness by deliberately deprive oxygen to the brain for a period of time by strangulation or self-induced hypocapnia.

The lightheaded sensation they receive when they regain consciousness after passing out is the thrill or "high" the teens are hoping to get. The Choking Game is practiced at sleepovers or various camps which has recently led to the death of 15-year-old Kevin Tork.

Also known as Suffocation Roulette, Kevin Tork had a previous conversation with his father Ken Tork about the dangers of the game after seeing a televised report on a boy who had died from playing the good kids game. Kevin was later discovered unconscious in his room.
Ken regrets not restricting YouTube where instructional videos are being shown on how to play the choking game.

But the federal Centers for Disease Control has identified at least 82 choking-game deaths in the United States from 1995 to 2007. The Web site ChokingGame.net, which attempts to educate parents about the activity, claims that more than 400 kids have died playing the game.

The game has many names from "the good kids game" to other code names such as the American Dream
Airplaning
Black hole
Black-out game
California choke
Cloud nine
Dream game
Fainting game
Flatlining
Funky chicken
Gasp game
Knock-out game
Pass-out game
Purple dragon
Purple hazing
The scarf game
Something dreaming game
Space cowboy
Space monkey
Suffocation roulette
Tingling game