People play "the choking game" also known as "airplaning", to get a cheap, fast high. Last week, police found a WVU student hanging in his dorm room after playing it. It's a game some people may not know much about.

Danny Trejo is an addiction therapist at the Morgantown Area Youth Services Project. He says the kids he's talked to about "the choking game" are much younger then college age. 14, even 15 years old.

"Some of the younger kids can't afford to buy drugs so they find other ways," says Trejo.

Trejo has worked in counseling for 30 years and says this game is nothing new.

"Depleting the brain of oxygen, it's going to give them some sense of a high...it's been around."

But he says sometimes it takes a tragedy, like the death of Jonathan Hansen, to bring an issue to light. Police found Hansen hanging in his dorm room last week. They say it was a result of "the choking game." He was a junior chemical engineering major from Elkview and had a 4.0 average. He made the dean's list every semester.

Trejo says a lot of times kids can be good at hiding their problems.

"Often times, parents won't even find out until way later that their kids are involved in high risk behavior."

This issue is so concerning for one parent that she is working on starting classes in Taylor County aimed at alerting students about the dangers of the game. She is currently trying to get police and local middle schools involved.

Some symptoms parents should watch out for in their children: inexplicable marks or bruises on the neck, frequent severe headaches, and high necked shirts even in warm weather.