Parents: Forget pill swap parties or special K or even that Texas Tea/purple drank/"JaMarcus Russell" — the newest, potentially lethal drug fad your child may be dabbling in requires nothing more than a pair of headphones and an Internet connection.

So reported an Oklahoma news station in a positively sensational segment this week on "digital drugs" or "iDosing," purportedly a new "internet craze" taking place across America and under unsuspecting parents' noses.

The kids these days are getting high, the report warned, by downloading droning tracks such as the "Gates of Hades" — try it for yourself here  — programmed to "induce drug-like effects." Different audio files are available, said to mimic mairjuana, LSD, ecstasy, or even, for the spiritually inclined, peyote. And while "Gates of Hades" is readily and freely viewable on YouTube, some websites are selling the audio file, presumably a more pure and uncut version, at the $200 price point.

"Parents really need to listen up to this one," said the News 9 reporter from Oklahoma City. "Though the websites that tout them say they're a safe and legal way to get high, the theory is it could lead to illegal drug use."

The channel reported that a local high school sent out warnings to parents about iDosing and began cracking down on cell phone use after several high school students reported "physiological effects" after listening to one of the odwnloads

Students and administrators were duly rattled.

"I heard it was, like, some weird, like, demons and stuff through a iPod or something," Meghan Edwards, a Mustang High School student, told the station, recalling either a second- or third-hand experience. "And he was just freaking out."

Over at Wired, blogger Ryan Singel ruminated on the far-reaching social consequences of the new trend. Singel, who has also covered issues like the NSA wiretap story, proposed that future presidential candidates can claim: "But I had it on mute."

The Daily Telegraph, that venerable London broadsheet, thought i-Dosing was a hilarious joke. Time Magazine somehow padded about a bit more credulously. Minnpost.com, incidentally a nonprofit journalism enterprise in Minneapolis, rightly pointed out that the story was so good it should've been an Onion spoof.

A Bay Citizen reporter who listened to the audio files laughed uncontrollably but could not replicate the reported effects of demonic visions.