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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