Oral Presentation 3

Weeks ago I was watching TV and in the Andres Openheimer’s show, he presented a piece that seemed really interesting. This news was about the new ways young people were doping, or as the informal language says, “getting high”. Of all the different ways mentioned through the show the way that caught my eye the most is called “I-doping” and it consists only in using audio tracks with different kinds of sounds and rhythms, but how does it work? This is what got me curious. The audio tracks are being sold over the Internet and they consist in a melody, composed in two tones that are called binaural. These digital songs played in high volume alter the brain waves and supposedly offer psychoactive effects on the listener, the same ones that some drugs give. Scientists have been considering if the I-doping is harmful and how it may work. Nowadays scientific studies results were published in ABC and have found that I-doping is inoffensive and they say that the effects are even helpful for the persons that suffer from anxiety, and even some persons actually feel a state of ecstasy with this practice. In these studies scientists argue that all is just suggestions from the user and what he wants to feel. Analyzing the consequences of these digital drugs may be a little difficult because they aren’t drugs and based on the studies we may say they don’t have negative or harmful effects but these drugs may introduce young persons to other drugs. The fact that you have already “tried” drugs, even if they are digital and fake could make young persons prone to trying real ones thinking they are just the same. This is why we have to worry and do something about all these trends that may result harmful for the society.