It’s no secret that sound can affect moods. Still, parents in the town of Mustang, Okla., were warned about I-Dosers in March when the school superintendent there sent a letter saying some students at Mustang High who listened to the sounds “exhibited the same physical effects as if they were under the effects of drugs or alcohol,” including increased blood pressure, rapid pulse and involuntary eye movements.
Multiple agencies and research institutes contacted said they were unfamiliar with I-Dosers, including the National Institute on Drug Abuse. “It may not do any harm it’s just one more thing to worry about.” “He had the curiosity to search,” she says. “I don’t dare.”Īnother mother, who requested her name not be used, shared the same worry when she learned her son downloaded I-Dosers. “I can’t say I believe it or not unless I were to actually try it,” Gonzalez says. Though the teen told his mother the sounds had no effect, she isn’t sure what to think. Parent Maria Christina Gonzalez of Kendall, Fla., found the I-Doser program on her 15-year-old son’s laptop.
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The I-Doser free software is the second most downloaded program in the science category on, with 6,500 downloads in a single recent week. On the I-Doser Facebook page, users recommend tracks with comments such as, “Last night I did ‘peyote’ and ‘alter-x’ and they really worked.” Many scientific experts say they’re unfamiliar with “digital drugs” – sometimes sold under the brand name I-Dosers – and doubt whether sound patterns could have the same effect as chemical drugs.īut some parents – and at least one Oklahoma school system – worry that downloading these sounds could be a teen’s first step toward physical drugs.Īs proof, they point to YouTube, where hundreds of videos, some of teen “users” getting “high,” have been posted. In the digital age, they’ve got a new arena for concern: sound waves that, some say, affect the brain like a drug – and cost only 99 cents on iTunes and. For decades, parents, doctors and school administrators have worried about the dangers of drugs.
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