Intoxicants such as alcohol, cocaine, cannabis, and LSD now have their online counterpart. People are now turning to digital drugs for mental relaxation. This trend among the youth has recently grown to the point where scientists from all around the world are researching it. In this context, it is important for us to know about these digital drugs.
What is a digital drug?
Binaural beats are the scientific name for the digital drug we’re talking about. This is a genre of music that is easily accessible through any music platform. That is, all you need now is a smartphone, headphones, and a strong internet connection. Listening to such audio recordings causes people to become inebriated.
Binaural literally means “two ears,” and beats refer to sound. Binaural beats are a sort of sound in which you hear noises in both ears at distinct frequencies. This confuses your brain, which attempts to combine both noises into one. A third sound is formed in the brain as a result of this, which only we can hear. People feel sober, disoriented, and intoxicated as a result of this brain activity.
What does the research say about this?
Binaural beats are particularly popular in the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Romania, Poland, and the United Kingdom.
Scientists attempted to investigate the effect of binaural beats in a study published in the journal Drug and Alcohol Review. Binaural beats are preferred by 5.3 percent of people, according to a survey of 30 thousand people. They were on average 27 years old, and 60.5 percent of them were men. According to the findings, three-quarters of those who listened to the noises got a good night’s sleep. Simultaneously, 34.7 percent of people use binaural beats to improve their mood, and 11.7 percent use them to mimic the effects of actual medications. Some participants even claim that binaural beats give them dreams and that they use digital drugs as a supplement to increase the effects of substances like DMT. While 50% of consumers listen to this audio for one hour, 12% choose to lose themselves in digital drugs for more than two hours. This trend is currently most visible in the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Romania, Poland, and the United Kingdom.
How dangerous are these Digital Drugs, especially for children?
Parents must monitor their children’s phone activities, listening to binaural beats has been shown to change people’s moods. This helps them feel quite relaxed and at ease. As a result of listening to these beats repeatedly, people develop addictions. Although little research has been done on its impact on mental and physical health, parents should nonetheless monitor their children’s phone usage.
One of the primary drawbacks of digital drugs is that young people will be enticed to experiment with real drugs such as alcohol and marijuana to understand their effects. This can lead young people to take the wrong steps to understand the effects of both drugs.
When such music was reported as a drug?
According to reports, the first example of digital drug use was discovered in 2010, when three students from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, were found inebriated in school. The student admitted to the principal that he was listening to binaural beats that he had acquired from the internet. The name of the i-doser website that created this Beats was in the news at the time. In fact, according to one website, binaural beats affect 80 percent of its users. Countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Lebanon have called for a ban on digital drugs due to their harmful effects.