Zeplike
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I just... don't even have anything to say. The midwest must be really boringThree students were sent to the principal's office when they appeared to be high on drugs or alcohol in March, said Mustang School District Superintendent Bonnie Lightfoot. She said the kids explained that they had tried something called "i-dosers."
Young people plug into i-dosers through putting on headphones and downloading music and tones that create a supposed drug-like euphoria.
The technology is designed to combine a tone in each ear to create a binaural beat designed to alter brainwaves. Whether it was kids faking it, the power of suggestion or a high wasn't clear to administrators who investigated the students' claims. Adding to the mystery was the fact that these kids weren't troublemakers. So the worried Lightfoot sent parents a letter warning them to be aware of this new temptation to kids.
Now other schools and drug experts are concerned about this trend just hitting Oklahoma.
"I think it's very dangerous," said Karina Forrest-Perkins, chief operating officer of Gateway to Prevention and Recovery in Shawnee. While there are no known neurological effects from digital drugs, they encourage kids to pursue mood altering substances, she said.
Some parents have called the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control worried about i-dosing, said OBN spokesman Mark Woodward. He said the i-dosing effect is likely sort of a placebo rather than a valid threat to children's brain waves.
A site says that the i-doses may not be downloaded by anyone under 18 years of age.
"Come on. You know they are," Forrest-Perkins said. "No one over 18 is trying to get stoned on a song."
My favorite quote hahaha > "If a parent notices a child is sitting around all the time with headphones on, they should look into what stresses are happening in the child's life ... and deal with it in a constructive way," Shlackman said.
Lightfoot said like Mustang High School parents, she's shocked over the digital drugs.
"What worries me is the ease in which some people can sell things to kids by saying that it's supposed to be mood altering," she said. "It's a real moneymaker out there."
more: http://newsok.com/digital-drugs-at-mustang-high-school-have-experts-warning-of-slippery-slope/article/3475464?custom_click=lead_story_title#ixzz0tbuuQ8SS
