'Suffocation roulette,' 'funky chicken', 'the fainting game,' 'space monkey', 'blackout,' 'flatliner':: are your grade- and middle-school patients playing the Choking Game?  Promoted by peers as a "safe" and "natural" way to get "high," asphyxiation gains increasing popularity in schools, yet goes undetected when fatalities are mistaken for suicide.  A journal article entitled Self strangulation by hanging from cloth towel dispensers in Canadian schools, in text or PDF, is available online now. You can download a PDF handout for parents, with hyperlinks to additional resources, courtesy of the Kitsap County Health Department of Washington State, here,    (Click the red hyperlink to download Adobe Reader and access your PDF files)

 FDA MedWatch: New Strattera warnings include liver damage and suicidal thinking in children and teens. FDA to strengthen its Safety Program for marketed drugs. More news from the FDA.

Methamphetamine addicted parents:  researchers at University of Illinois document the ruinous effects on rural Midwestern children of days long psychotic highs and depressive crashes.

Children At Risk:  Maternal depression predicts child antisocial behavior

Disrupted Sleep, Disruptive Behavior:  Adenotonsillectomy improves behavioral and emotional problems in children with obstructive sleep apnea.