ALERT: "The Choking Game" kills brain cells... and kids!

This is a new one to me. Apparently, kids who would never go near alcohol or drugs are being wooed by a game that gives a similar high in which they cause themself to pass out due to asphyziation. The problem is that by choking themselves, kids are (1) killing brain cells and (2) becoming addicted to the adrenaline high associated with the activity. If this is kept up over time, it can kill!!!

...the mother of four thought maybe her 13-year-old son, Gabriel Mordecai, was smoking marijuana. She never imagined he was putting a rope around his neck and choking himself for a rush.
"A couple of months before he died, he became very hostile, very angry, and he complained of horrible headaches," Pacatte said. "Then I started seeing bloodshot eyes."...Gabriel was airlifted to a hospital in Sacramento. Sarah and Sam made the gut-wrenching, two-hour journey by car.
They prayed at Gabriel's side, but 15 hours later, Pacatte says, "He died on life support. His body shut down."

I know that Mod-Blog has readers who are teens, who have teens as kids, and who work with teens. Please pass the word that this behavior is not a game. It is deadly.