Generation Xanax
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wrote on 20 Mar 2025, 15:02 last edited by
Never have tried it, and dont know anybody who does. (But I am sure there are people I know taking it, but hiding it.)
https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/xanax-drug-benzodiazepines-research-harm-7a60f236
Over the past six decades, hundreds of millions of people have taken Xanax (the brand name for alprazolam) or one of its cousins in the benzodiazepine family—Klonopin (clonazepam); Ativan (lorazepam); and Valium (diazepam)—to lull them to sleep or deliver instant calm in an age of abiding anxiety.
Psychiatrists and primary-care doctors regularly prescribe the drugs for everything from mild anxiety to insomnia, making benzodiazepines some of the most commonly prescribed psychiatric medications in America. The pills’ omnipresence has left a mark on pop culture, turning up in Lil Wayne songs and HBO’s “The White Lotus” as bearers of chemical tranquility.
But as concerns increase about potential adverse effects of these drugs, some patients who try to quit are suffering what amounts to a hangover they can’t escape.
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wrote on 20 Mar 2025, 16:27 last edited by blondie
I know just too many ladies using these for stupid reasons. One lady couldn’t handle being a passenger in a vehicle on a busy road, so would take a pill pre car ride. I had a dentist offer me Ativan when it was clearly her who had anxiety related to confidence with one of my tooth extractions (no longer my dentist, btw).
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wrote on 20 Mar 2025, 16:33 last edited by
Hate the benzos. Even when I was 18 they would stay in your system for a long time.
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wrote on 20 Mar 2025, 16:40 last edited by
Never taken any.
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wrote on 20 Mar 2025, 17:23 last edited by
Seems like gummies will crowd these out. At least with younger folk.
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wrote on 20 Mar 2025, 21:30 last edited by Jolly
75% of young women are on mood altering drugs.
At least another 20% should also be taking them.
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wrote on 21 Mar 2025, 01:22 last edited by Doctor Phibes
I've been known to take a mood altering substance from time to time. It sure beats wasting your life watching cable TV.
Nobody ever lay on their death bed saying 'I wish I'd watched more Fox News'. Well, nobody I want to talk to, at least.
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wrote on 21 Mar 2025, 15:45 last edited by Klaus
Ah! About a year ago I made some space cookies. Very bad experience.
Also, THC may calm you down, but I don't think it works against real anxiety and depression.
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wrote on 21 Mar 2025, 16:07 last edited by blondie
@Klaus I had a bad experience years ago (likely laced with something). Since then, it’s been no drugs, no alcohol, except for short stints with pain killers postop, etc. But with end stage cancer, heart disease, chronic pain, even Alzheimer’s … yup, I want to be high as a kite. I’ve heard multiple people praise cannabis for this.
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wrote on 21 Mar 2025, 20:05 last edited by
When my mom was dying home hospice basically kept her high on morphine for her final days.