![]() ![]() “Yes, it is,” he says, though he’ll rely on his own best judgment as well, particularly in a party setting. I ask X if this method of dosing feels more reliable than what most everyone else has had to do throughout the history of inebriation - go with their gut instinct. On coke, if it starts getting too high, I’ll take a Xanax to calm my heart rate down.” If it’s falling too low while on Xanax, then it’s okay, because I can just go take a nap and stop drinking if I was. “And on coke, anything above 140 is when I stop. If I’m on Xanax I usually don’t want it dropping under 50,” X says. He says that while his Apple Watch is mostly “shitty,” its heart rate monitoring feature is “the best and most useful thing about it.” His interest in the data depends on what he’s taking, of course: “For Xanax I make sure doesn’t fall under a certain number,” he explains, while with coke he wants to avoid “going over a certain number.”Īnd the numbers are certain. I got in touch with “X,” a 19-year-old male redditor who frequents r/cocaine and tracks his bpm while indulging in his favorite intoxicants, which include alcohol and the anti-anxiety tranquilizer Xanax, as well as coke. But what is the practical value of that information, if any? And so, ever since the consumer technology to keep tabs on your pulse 24/7 first became available, they’ve been sharing health data from their binges in online drug forums like the r/cocaine subreddit, for example:Ĭlearly, you can see one of coke’s (multifarious) effects on your body in real time with these gadgets strapped to your wrist. They reason that by keeping their heart below a certain threshold of beats per minute (bpm) while high, they can lessen the always-present risk of an acute cardiac event. As CNBC first reported, some drug users find wearable devices like the Apple Watch and the Fitbit helpful in managing their intake of stimulants, which tend to get your heart rate up. So I don’t think we can be too surprised that people are using fitness trackers to monitor their vitals while taking recreational drugs. ![]() (Even Viagra was originally developed as a pill to lower blood pressure - erections were merely a side effect.) You can hardly create a product before somebody’s come up with a use for it you never considered. ![]()
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