SAN ANTONIO -- Teenagers are using websites to get high, and it's completely legal.
It's called "i-dosing." It sounds like music, but it's not. The sites play different frequencies that promises to deliver an effect much like opium, cocaine, or marijuana. Doctors say the danger is teens may want to end up trying the real thing after trying the websites.
"It's not like you listen to an i-dose for crack cocaine and the next day you're smoking a crack pipe," explained addictions specialist Dr. Gregory Smith. "But I do think if you have an impressionable 13/14-year-old kid that does an i-dose, it may drop their inhibition if they're presented with the real drug to try it."
Since i-dosing is so new, there haven't been any real studies on its effects. But brain imaging experts say sonic drugs do change the brain. They're just not sure how much.
