Generation Xanax
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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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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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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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@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.
