Anyone who is taking them is, you guessed it, a drug addict.
I took Xanax for a while. I did not become addicted. It helped me.
I found these pills that get me so high, I don’t even know where I am, I highly recommend them.......they’re called, “Placebos”.
-Steve Martin
Everything old is new again, dust off your 45s of Mother’s Little Helper.
First time I have ever heard the notion that Xanax can’t be addictive.
Klonopin has to be taken for a while before it becomes effective, but I guess there must be addicts somewhere who don’t demand instant gratification.
Overall, I am learning towards the conclusion that today was “make sh¡t up day” at Pew.
suffer from Bi-polar illness and have been prescribed in the past all theses meds. they are dangerous and need to be monitored if you are on them... big problem is that most who get prescribed theses meds are not monitored after they are put on the meds...expect real problems from this...off Meds now feel better because I just stay away from stress...
Yeah, there are quite a few high school kids that abuse the hell out of Xanax.
Not true. I’ve taken ativan on and off for years, as much as 1.5 mg/day. Last time I had any was several months ago and I had no withdrawal symptoms whatsoever. Benzos can be very helpful and they’re inexpensive.
Then why are they only Schedule 4?
They are very addictive, depending on how you use them. Chronic use can lead to a horrible addiction.
Actually, I think alcohol is the biggest drug misused in the world.
But it is legal for adults to use, and I wouldn’t want it any other way.
I know far more people who take a sip of courage, or a drink to relax, forget about things, or just to get shatfaced then any number of pill takers.
It’s human nature.
Regulators need to mind their own business.
I was given Xanax by the ER Doc, when I had irregular heart beats episode in Santa Fe, NM at age 50. After drinking lot of coffee at a technical conference all day and then going for a jog in the evening at 7200 altitude caused my heart rhythm to go completely berserk.
It was amazing how fast the Xanax worked, and I was released from the hospital quickly. Since then I have had 2 more prescriptions of Xanax over a span of 27 years. It was not addictive at all, did not upset my stomach which most pills will doi my stomach, so I call it a wonder drug. Sporadically I will get a panic attacks out of nowhere, and one tiny Xanax pill will demolish the attack in minutes. So over 27 years, I have used less than 40 pills, and I carry it with me whenever I am driving alone long distance.
Drugs are bad mmmkay.
This is ridiculous. I’m tired of these controlling morons.
I had an ex girlfriend who had taken xanax and some point and said it didn’t make her less depressed, just made her not care that she was depressed. She got off of them, got her life back. That was before I met her.
I met her a few years later, we hit it off. She was good as gold for 5 years. And then she went crazy on me.
I don’t think it was the xanax. I think women are either crazy when you meet them, or they are apt to going crazy for no discernible reason. Now I’m just looking for a level of crazy that I can have fun with.
In the 1970s it was known that Valium was highly addicting. What is this article trying to say?
Xanax is a common side dish for the methadone junkies in my city.
The addictiveness is overstated, I am probably mentally and physically addicted to lorazepam, that’s okay with me since I take them to quell panic attacks due to heart arrhythmia, and I’ve been taking them 10 years.
I’ll add this. Don’t take these pills in any combination of with an opioid and scopolamine. When you wake up you won’t remember a thing but you will feel brain raped. I seriously wanted to sue the hospital that allowed this to be administered to me accept it ended up I agreed to it in writing after even feeling like I was lied to about it’s effects.
“benzos”
for many people benzos are more addicting than heroin ... and it can happen REALLY quick and with “normal” doses ... and once addicted, trying to quit cold turkey can easily lead to fatal seizures ... can also lead to long term damage to the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis
ativan is the worst of the bunch because it’s very short-acting ... but really, these drugs should never be used except in a medical setting ...
Just reading your comment paints a bit of a picture that the patient “wants” to become addicted and seeks medical care to do so.
I have a very close friend who was brought into this loop by “doctors” who seem ignorant or uncaring of the side and continual effects of playing in the chemistry set
Becoming addicted is not at all what she wanted, and she is a strong advocate for burning this house of cards down now
Just sayin
Millions of people spend their lives Sleep deprived, and they label Xanax dangerous. F-—ing stupidity on a Universal scale. These Drug Cartel Companies just want to sell their New EXPENSIVE DRUGS. Liars