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Teens Get High on 'Digital Drugs'

Should we be concerned about 'i-dosing'?

By Evann Gastaldo,  Newser Staff

Posted Jul 18, 2010 5:45 PM CDT

(Newser) – The latest drug trend sweeping the nation has nothing to do with pharmaceuticals. Kids are getting high on MP3s, Wired reports, pointing to an Oklahoma News 9 report (at left) on the phenomenon known as “i-dosing.” Supposedly, just by putting on headphones and listening to music—which is really “a droning noise,” writes Ryan Singel—you can experience effects similar to those of marijuana, cocaine, opium, and peyote.

Officials are concerned i-dosing will act as a gateway drug to actual drugs, but Singel doesn’t seem too concerned: The most pressing issue is how to tell “if a teen with headphones on is i-dosing or just listening to Justin Bieber.” Annika Harris of The Frisky agrees: She listened to “Gates of Hades,” one of the free i-dosing tracks, “and the only feeling I felt was annoyance,” she writes.

A girl i-doses in a YouTube video.
A girl i-doses in a YouTube video.   (YouTube)
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A report on "i-dosing."   (NEWS9OklahomaCity)
One i-doser's experience.   (amiemoocow)
An i-dosing track called "Gates of Hades."   (catimacat)

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JohnEd
Jul 19, 2010 7:18 PM CDT
Front row Pentecostal fundamentalist...I'm sure
Berzelius
Jul 19, 2010 1:51 PM CDT
Forgot to mention: Not drugs.
agnostica
Jul 19, 2010 11:38 AM CDT
This shit will never work the same as actual drugs. Listen to Pink Floyd's The Wall. That's probably the closest you'll ever get to this sort of experience. This music is just plain garbage, and it certainly won't lead to actual drugs. Jeez people, pretty soon french fries will somehow become a gateway drug.

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