The choking game: A doctor explains why people suffocate themselves to get high. “People have lots of ways they try to suffocate themselves. They prevent themselves from inhaling new oxygen into their lungs or they cut off the blood flow to the brain, either way starving the brain of oxygen. Once someone does inhale, it makes them momentarily high.
The problem is, when the brain goes without oxygen, permanent damage immediately sets in.”
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