Not to be flippant, but hasn't this kind of thing been going on since long before the internet?
It sounds like the addition of social media has created a media circus, rather than a new problem itself.
It sounds like the addition of social media has created a media circus, rather than a new problem itself.
I would guess her risk was elevated.
https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/138/6/e201607...
Any guesses about the risk she was in a priori are not relevant, and cannot be determined from that paper.
This also sounds like typical moral panic, it's a pretty shitty "high".
> to their brain in order to get high.
It'd be nice to put a bit more structure to all this. Are deaths going up for this particular game, is it more dangerous because participants do it alone, are children doing it younger. Are suicides and other things that kill the youth down because of social media.