Americans are concerned about digital drugs

Americans are worried - children across the country “get high” on the Internet with the help of special music files that cause a state of ecstasy when listening. Many seriously believe that this can encourage teens to use real drugs.

For example, one of the American news channels reports on a phenomenon called “i-dosing”, which is to find an “online dealer”, with it you can join the “digital drugs” and get high via headphones. And US officials take this seriously.
“Children gather in groups on these sites driven by an interest in new sensations, and this can lead them to other, more dangerous places,” said Mark Woodward, a spokesman for the Oklahoma Drug Control Bureau, to a local television station.

To get the “iDose" you need to put on your headphones and listen to the "music", which consists mainly of various noises and hum. Sites that sell such sounds promise a feeling akin to euphoria from taking real drugs. Teens listen to tracks like Gates of Hell , which can be freely found on YouTube (as with regular drugs, the first dose is often free).

Those who want to get involved in such “drugs” can purchase tracks that supposedly have the same effect as using marijuana, cocaine, opium or peyote. Only unlike drugs sold on the streets, which do not require instructions, it is recommended that their digital counterparts buy a 40-page guide that explains how to get high with mp3.


One of Oklahoma’s schools alsoThey do not consider the threat frivolous and send their parents letters in which they warn of a new fashion. Teachers went so far as to ban iPods and other players at school, hoping to prevent students from becoming “friends” with digital drugs.

In this video you can look at the behavior of a very ordinary teenager after listening to mp3 drugs.

I wonder if future presidential candidates will deny the use of “digital drugs”, whether it’s time to declare war or a cyber war on cyber drugs, how the police find out if the teenager is taking “iDose” or just listening to music and whether the iPod will become an instrument for receiving a dose in the future, whether it is possible to get an overdose when mixing conventional and digital drugs, what happens to those who sell dirty mp3s?

Perhaps the worst thing that will happen is that the teenagers will switch to something “heavier,” such as the performances of Steve Reich, Phillip Glass and Janet Cardiff, or even The Killing Machine ? Here are a few "hard" things that digital drug experimentation can lead to.

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