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Choking Game Report
Website
"Printable information
& helpful links for parents & other adults to help raise
awareness about this dangerous teen choking behavior"
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Report Contents
Printable
Information Video
News Print News Interviews
Other Papers Other
Links Press Kit
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Printable
Information
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Trifold
"Choking Game Explainer" Brochure This brochure was created by a police department to explain the
choking game to parents. Can be printed and distributed "as-is"
or used as a template to create your own brochure.
Discussing
The Dangers of Choking With Young Adults Suggestions &
talking points written by a parent in preparation for speaking to his own kids
"Choking Game"
Statistics An anecdotal report based on the US government's CDC
statistics
The
Choking Game - Tips For Parents
Written by Julie
Rosenbluth, M.P.H., CHES. PDF file reprinted by
permission from Guidance
Channel Ezine
How To Warn Your Children about the "Choking Game"
Written by Dr. Gary Park, Director of
Critical Care, Mary Birch Children's Hospital, Tacoma, WA for the PTA
archive copy
Letter
To School Principal & Other Community Leaders This
sample letter can be sent by any adult concerned about the dangers of the
choking game to any community leader (school principal, church president, sports
league chairman, etc.) that has the contact information of parents. The
letter alerts the community leader about the choking game and requests that the
leader send an appropriate alert letter to all parents he or she has contact
information for.
Letter
To Parents From School Principal or Community Leader This
sample letter can be sent by a school principal or any community leader to all
parents he or she has contact information for. The letter alerts parents to the
dangers of the choking game and advises parents to learn more about the
choking game and respond appropriately.
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Video
News
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the web page of the TV station to watch the video
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2/9/6 - " Game" Presents New Challenge For Parents
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2/10/6 - Kids Passing Out To Get A Rush
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2/9/5 - 'Game' Claims Local Boy's Life
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2/7/6 - Rosenbluth
on Choking Game
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2/1/6 - Choking Game has No Winner
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1/27/6 - Dr.
Mark Chandra on Choking Game
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Click Here To View All 28 Video News Stories
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Print
News
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read the print news article
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Police
Warn Parents About Choking Game WTVF, TN - Feb. 14,
2006 Less than one week after her son, Daniel Sheppard,
died, Kristy Beasley was out talking to parents to let them know
about the choking game. ...
Police
to Warn Parents About Choking Game WTVF, TN - Feb. 14,
2006 .. increasingly popular. Eleven-year-old Daniel
Sheppard died Tuesday night while playing what kids call the
choking game. Kids try ...
'Choking
Game' Continues To Attract, Kill Children Local6.com,
FL - Feb. 14, 2006 Hundreds of children have died in
Central Florida and across the country attempting to get a
"high" during an activity called the choking game,
according to a ...
Educate
children about the dangers of 'choking game' Daily
News Journal (subscription), TN - Feb. 14, 2006 The
11-year-old died while reportedly taking part in what's called
"the choking game," a bizarre quest by some youth for
kicks that has proven deadly in more ...
Schools
warn parents of 'choking game' pressure Farmington
Daily Times, NM - Feb 13, 2006 FARMINGTON -- Middle-schoolers
throughout the country are engaging in a dangerous activity
known as "the choking game," and some school nurses in
Farmington ...
'Choking
game' death creates worry Daily News Journal
(subscription), TN - Feb 12, 2006 By SCOTT BRODEN. The
recent death of a Tennessee boy playing a "choking
game" has alarmed local educators and parents alike.
Murfreesboro ...
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Interviews
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interview
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Dan Baldwin, 11/8/5 - The editor of
the
Choking Game
Report is interviewed by Jay Powers, a Memphis, TN radio talk show host
about the choking game.
Click
here to
listen to the recorded audio interview right now with your
computer speakers. To download the entire MP3 file of the audio interview, "right-click"
here and follow your computer's instructions to save the file to your
computer's hard drive. Kelly Miles, 11/4/5, Mr. Miles is a deacon at a Tacoma, WA
Christian organization. He discusses how he shared information about the choking
game with his Christian youth group and their parents. Click
here to
listen to the recorded audio interview right now with your
computer speakers. To download the entire MP3 file of the audio interview, "right-click"
here and follow your computer's instructions to save the file to your
computer's hard drive.
Cindy Allard, 11/3/5 - Ms. Allard is the mother of choking
victim Justin Allard, a special needs high school student. She shares
with other parents what they need to know about the choking game and what they
need to discuss with their kids today. Click
here to
listen to the recorded audio interview right now with your
computer speakers. To download the entire MP3 file of the audio interview, "right-click"
here and follow your computer's instructions to save the file to your
computer's hard drive.
Kamelia
Sepasi, 11/1/5 - Ms. Sepasi is the mother of
choking victim Sasha Sepasi, 14, who died in California 10/21/5. She shares with
other parents what they need to know about the choking game and what they need
to discuss with their kids today. Click
here to
listen to the recorded audio interview right now with your
computer speakers. To download the entire 5.4 meg MP3 file of the audio
interview, "right-click"
here and follow your computer's instructions
to save the file to your computer's hard drive.
Trina
Alcott, 10/28/5 - Ms. Alcott is the mother of choking
victim Kodee Alcott, 13, who died in New Jersey 3/31/5. She shares with other
parents what they need to know about the choking game and what they need to
discuss with their kids today. Click
here to
listen to the recorded audio interview right now with your
computer speakers. To download the entire MP3 file of the audio interview, "right-click"
here and follow your computer's instructions to save the file to your
computer's hard drive.
Chris VanderHeyden, 10/25/5 - Mr. VanderHeyden is the Principal
of James Madison Middle School where choking game victim Kyle McCarthy attended
school. In the 30 minute recorded audio interview that follows, Mr. VanderHeyden
shares the experience his staff, school district and community went through
following Kyle's death. The interview may be useful for school administrators
seeking to understand how this behavior affects a school and what might be done
to prevent the behavior from within the student body. Click
here to
listen to the recorded audio interview right now with your
computer speakers. To download the entire 5.4 meg MP3 file of the audio
interview, "right-click"
here and follow your computer's instructions
to save the file to your computer's hard drive.
Dr. Thomas Andrew, 8/3/5 - Dr. Andrew, a pediatrician as well
as New Hampshire's chief medical examiner answers parent questions about
the choking game in an ABC News interview. Click
here to view a printable version of Dr.
Andrew's interview. To view the complete 7/29/5 ABC News article click
here .
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Other Papers
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Most medical papers on the subject of choking are
focused on the subject of autoerotic asphyxiation or "AeA" - choking with a sexual component. Hopefully
medical journalists will soon write on the incidence of choking without the
sexual component.
Asphyxial Games - Is the Media Ahead of NAME in the Recognition of the
Phenomenon? National Association of Medical Examiners Seminar
Topic October 2005 copy
of program (see page 15) We are hoping to get a copy of the
speaker's presentation soon.
Deadly Game Among Children and Adolescents
Annals of
Emergency Medicine - August 2003 archive
copy
New asphixial game erroneously seen as safe (Gaining Popularity in 10-
to 14-Year-Olds) Pediatric News - May 1, 2003 archive
copy
Teens see asphyxial game as drug-free high (Explain Dangers to our Young
Patients) Family Practice News - March 15, 2003 archive
copy
"Suffocation Roulette": A Case of Recurrent Syncope in an
Adolescent Boy Annals of Emergency Medicine - February
2003 archive
copy web
link
"Passout" Game Sufficient Evidence for Aggravated Assult Charge
Texas Juvenile Law - October 2002 archive
copy
Self strangulation by hanging from cloth towel dispensers in Canadian schools
Injury Prevention - July 2001 archive
copy
Autoerotic
Asphyxiation Syndrome In Adolescent and Young Adult Males
Written in 1996 by the brother of an AeA victim. PDF file posted at www.SilentVictims.org
Medical
Realities of Breath Control Play by Jay Wiseman, 1997
GreeneryPress.com
When
Self-Pleasuring Becomes Self-Destruction: Autoerotic Asphyxiation
Paraphilia by Andrew P. Jenkins, Ph.D., CHES, EMT Central
Washington University Original published at http://www.cwu.edu/~jenkinsa/aeaarticle.html
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Other Links
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Web Sites
Connect
With Kids - CWK Network, Inc. is the parent company that produces the Emmy®
award-winning Connect with Kids television series: real kids, true
stories, today’s tough topics. These half-hour specials are shown on 70 top
local television stations across the country, reaching 65 percent of U.S.
households.
Guidance
Channel Online - GuidanceChannel.com, a brand of Sunburst Visual Media, is
an online portal that offers newsletters and an online magazine including
insightful articles, thought-provoking interviews, tips website reviews, and
other content that addresses the social, emotional, and educational issues
facing today`s youth.
Silent Victims -
This web site is published by the brother of an AeA victim.
Stop The Choking
Game - This web site is published by Lyndi Trost, a grand parent of a
choking game victim.
What School Districts & Others are Publishing about
"Choking"
Federal
Way Public Schools, Noble
High School, Tacoma
Public Schools
Other Online Discussion Groups
Choking
Game Support for Parent Who Lost a Child - This is a Support Group for those
that have lost loved ones to "The Choking Game". Founded 9/2/5. 43
members as of 10/26/5.
AeA
Support - This group was started after I had searched unsuccessfully online
for support groups for those of us who are addicted to Autoerotic Asphyxiation.
Founded 4/4/3. 301 members as of 10/26/5.
AeA
Support for Parents Who Lost a Child - This is a support group for parents
who lost a child to autoerotic asphyxiation. Founded 12/1/4. 33 members as of
10/26/5.
AeA Self
Hanging - This group is for family members and friends of those who have
died by autoerotic asphyxiation. Founded 5/28/1999. 563 members as of
10/26/5.
AeA
Support for Family of Victims - This is a support group for family members
and friends of those who have died by Autoerotic Asphyxiation (AeA). Founded
11/4/1999. 193 members as of 10/26/5.
Medical Associations
American Academy of Child and
Adolescent Psychiatry
3615 Wisconsin Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20016-3007
202-966-7300 Tel 202-966-2891 Fax www.aacap.org
American Academy of Pediatrics
141 Northwest Point Blvd., Elk Grove Village, IL, 60007
847-434-4000 Tel www.aap.org John
O'Brien, Dept. of Comm. jobrien@aap.org
x7389 commun@aap.org We have
requested to interview a pediatrician knowledgeable about the choking game.
National Association of Medical
Examiners Denise Nally, Executive Director 430
Pryor Street SW Atlanta Georgia USA 30312 404-730-4781Tel
404-730-4420 Fax www.thename.org We
have requested to interview a medical examiner knowledgeable about the
choking game.
UCLA
/ School Mental Health Project Center for Mental Health in Schools
Department of Psychology P.O. Box 951563 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1563
TEL 310-825-3634 Tel 866-846-4843 Toll Free 310-206-8716 Fax smhp@ucla.edu
They have a discussion thread started on the choking game at http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/newnetexchange.htm.
Thay also appear to have an excellent newsletter for school nurses &
counselors that you can subscribe to at http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/.
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Press Kit
If you are a member of the press and
are developing a "choking game" story that will be
distributed to the public click here
to access the Teen Choking Game Report press kit which
provides a list of known choking game cases and contact
information for people who can be interviewed about the choking
game behavior.
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Contact,
Comment & Contribute
To
comment on or contribute to the website or newsletter please contact:
Dan Baldwin,
Editor & Publisher
Telecom Association, Inc.
31500 Grape Street #3-307
Lake Elsinore, CA 92532
951-251-5155 Phone
951-346-3585 Fax
Dan@TelecomAssociation.com
Email
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