Xanax is Addictive
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Will you shut up already, loser.
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Studies of Xanax (see ahead) show that most patients develop withdrawal symptoms during routine treatment lasting only eight weeks. Tolerance, or the need for increasing doses to achieve the same psychoactive effect, is the underlying physical mechanism of addiction. Within two to four weeks, tolerance can develop to the sedative effect of minor tranquilizers taken at night for sleep.=A0 This again warns against the use of these drugs for more than a few days at a time. The short-acting benzodiazepines can produce especially severe withdrawal symptoms, because the drug is cleared from the body at a relatively rapid rate. These include Xanax, Halcion, Ativan, Restoril, and Serax. However, according to expert Louis Fabre in a February 1991 interview …, tightness of binding to receptors is probably more indicative of addictive potential, and the most tightly binding are Xanax, Halcion, Ativan, and Klonopin. Individuals who take only one pill daily for sleep or anxiety are not exempt from withdrawal problems. In my private practice during the last few years I have worked with several people who were unable to stop taking a once-a-day standard dose of Xanax, Ativan, Klonopin, or other minor tranquilizers. In each case, the attempt to stop the medication led to a disturbing degree of anxiety or insomnia within twenty-four hours. The problem seemed to be caused by rebound anxiety or rebound insomnia (see ahead). In a personal communication in late December 1990, internist John Steinberg confirmed that patients taking one Xanax tablet each day for several weeks can become addicted. Steinberg is medical director of the Chemical Dependency Program at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center and president of the Maryland Society of Addiction Medicine. He points to research that Xanax and other short-acting benzodiazepines can cause a reactive hyperactivity of the receptors that they block. The hyperactive receptors then require one or more doses of Xanax each day or they produce anxiety and emotional discomfort. Steinberg calls the impact of Xanax "a fundamental change in the homeostasis of the brain." After the patient stops taking the Xanax, according to Steinberg, it takes the brain six to eighteen months to recover. Xanax patients should be warned, he says, that it can take a long time to get over painful withdrawal symptoms. Since doctors frequently don’t realize this, they, too, are likely to be confused and to continue the drug in the hope of "treating" the patient’s drug-induced anxiety and tension. Many detoxification beds are occupied by patients addicted to minor tranquilizers and even more by those who are cross-addicted with alcohol and other drugs. Steinberg says that Xanax is "by far and away" the worst offender and that it definitely causes addiction without being mixed with other sedatives. Steinberg estimates that one in ten patients receiving Xanax will become addicted. * (Based on an estimated fifteen million people receiving Xanax each year in the United States, Steinberg concludes that 1.5 million Xanax addicts are produced each year.)"
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You must be such a sad person. I wish you the best of luck to get over your obvious problems – psychotically misinforming and potentially scaring good people away from life saving medication. What you must be going through is worse than any PA/GAD symptoms most people here have. That must be hard on you. If you’d just stop from hiding behind the "anonymous" label maybe we could help you? Tom – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Studies of Xanax (see ahead) show that most patients develop withdrawal symptoms during routine treatment lasting only eight weeks. Tolerance, or the need for increasing doses to achieve the same psychoactive effect, is the underlying physical mechanism of addiction. Within two to four weeks, tolerance can develop to the sedative effect of minor tranquilizers taken at night for sleep.=A0 This again warns against the use of these drugs for more than a few days at a time. The short-acting benzodiazepines can produce especially severe withdrawal symptoms, because the drug is cleared from the body at a relatively rapid rate. These include Xanax, Halcion, Ativan, Restoril, and Serax. However, according to expert Louis Fabre in a February 1991 interview …, tightness of binding to receptors is probably more indicative of addictive potential, and the most tightly binding are Xanax, Halcion, Ativan, and Klonopin. Individuals who take only one pill daily for sleep or anxiety are not exempt from withdrawal problems. In my private practice during the last few years I have worked with several people who were unable to stop taking a once-a-day standard dose of Xanax, Ativan, Klonopin, or other minor tranquilizers. In each case, the attempt to stop the medication led to a disturbing degree of anxiety or insomnia within twenty-four hours. The problem seemed to be caused by rebound anxiety or rebound insomnia (see ahead). In a personal communication in late December 1990, internist John Steinberg confirmed that patients taking one Xanax tablet each day for several weeks can become addicted. Steinberg is medical director of the Chemical Dependency Program at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center and president of the Maryland Society of Addiction Medicine. He points to research that Xanax and other short-acting benzodiazepines can cause a reactive hyperactivity of the receptors that they block. The hyperactive receptors then require one or more doses of Xanax each day or they produce anxiety and emotional discomfort. Steinberg calls the impact of Xanax "a fundamental change in the homeostasis of the brain." After the patient stops taking the Xanax, according to Steinberg, it takes the brain six to eighteen months to recover. Xanax patients should be warned, he says, that it can take a long time to get over painful withdrawal symptoms. Since doctors frequently don’t realize this, they, too, are likely to be confused and to continue the drug in the hope of "treating" the patient’s drug-induced anxiety and tension. Many detoxification beds are occupied by patients addicted to minor tranquilizers and even more by those who are cross-addicted with alcohol and other drugs. Steinberg says that Xanax is "by far and away" the worst offender and that it definitely causes addiction without being mixed with other sedatives. Steinberg estimates that one in ten patients receiving Xanax will become addicted. * (Based on an estimated fifteen million people receiving Xanax each year in the United States, Steinberg concludes that 1.5 million Xanax addicts are produced each year.)"
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Studies of Xanax (see ahead) show that most patients develop withdrawal symptoms during routine treatment lasting only eight weeks. Tolerance, or the need for increasing doses to achieve the same psychoactive effect, is the underlying physical mechanism of addiction. Within two to four weeks, tolerance can develop to the sedative effect of minor tranquilizers taken at night for sleep.=A0 This again warns against the use of these drugs for more than a few days at a time. The short-acting benzodiazepines can produce especially severe withdrawal symptoms, because the drug is cleared from the body at a relatively rapid rate. These include Xanax, Halcion, Ativan, Restoril, and Serax. However, according to expert Louis Fabre in a February 1991 interview …, tightness of binding to receptors is probably more indicative of addictive potential, and the most tightly binding are Xanax, Halcion, Ativan, and Klonopin. Individuals who take only one pill daily for sleep or anxiety are not exempt from withdrawal problems. In my private practice during the last few years I have worked with several people who were unable to stop taking a once-a-day standard dose of Xanax, Ativan, Klonopin, or other minor tranquilizers. In each case, the attempt to stop the medication led to a disturbing degree of anxiety or insomnia within twenty-four hours. The problem seemed to be caused by rebound anxiety or rebound insomnia (see ahead). In a personal communication in late December 1990, internist John Steinberg confirmed that patients taking one Xanax tablet each day for several weeks can become addicted. Steinberg is medical director of the Chemical Dependency Program at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center and president of the Maryland Society of Addiction Medicine. He points to research that Xanax and other short-acting benzodiazepines can cause a reactive hyperactivity of the receptors that they block. The hyperactive receptors then require one or more doses of Xanax each day or they produce anxiety and emotional discomfort. Steinberg calls the impact of Xanax "a fundamental change in the homeostasis of the brain." After the patient stops taking the Xanax, according to Steinberg, it takes the brain six to eighteen months to recover. Xanax patients should be warned, he says, that it can take a long time to get over painful withdrawal symptoms. Since doctors frequently don’t realize this, they, too, are likely to be confused and to continue the drug in the hope of "treating" the patient’s drug-induced anxiety and tension. Many detoxification beds are occupied by patients addicted to minor tranquilizers and even more by those who are cross-addicted with alcohol and other drugs. Steinberg says that Xanax is "by far and away" the worst offender and that it definitely causes addiction without being mixed with other sedatives. Steinberg estimates that one in ten patients receiving Xanax will become addicted. * (Based on an estimated fifteen million people receiving Xanax each year in the United States, Steinberg concludes that 1.5 million Xanax addicts are produced each year.)"
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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Is this person "anonymous sender" a real person or is it something set up to just automatically post to this board. Is there any way to get rid of him/her/it? And to you Mr. Anonymous Sender, who cares about addiction when the addiction(if it is such) may possibly be improving the quality of life for someone. Andrea Visit my website at http://buildingblox.homestead.com
I sent an abuse to the "re-mailer" (one of them) that this person is using. Here is there response: Thank you for your mail. Anonymous Remailers are designed to provide privacy to its users. This means that we don’t keep any logs. So, we never know who wrote a certain message that passed our remailer. Even if we would keep logs, it wouldn’t help very much because most users use a chain of different anonymous remailers. All mail passing our remailer, might have passed several others before. There are 4 features build in the remailer system, to limit abuse. If you would like to be blocked, personally, you can have a closer look at point 4. In case of postings to a newsgroup (like these postings you complain about), you might consider using a filter ("killfile" the postings) that doesn’t download messages posted by a remailer. In Outlook Express you can set up a filter via the menu Tools/Newsgroup filters. These are the features build in the remailr system, to limi abuse: 1) we keep a hash of all mails passing the remailer, so all identical messages are deleted, and not processed. This way we can prevent using the remailer to send spam to a lot of people. 2) we do not allow people to add certain headers. People can not chose their own from-address. This way we prevent people from forging other addresses via our remailer. Users can chose a from-header (a name or a nickname). When posting to a newsgroup, a signature will be added to the message so everyone knows that the from-header might contain a false name or nickname. 3) source blocking: if we have evidence of someone abusing the remailer system, we can source block this person. All mails send from this persons address is deleted before we process it. 4) destination blocking: if you don’t want to receive any messages from the Widow remailer, you can send us a request. We will block your address, so all mail addressed to you, passing our remailer (Widow) will be deleted. You will never receive any messages from our remailer again. If you want me to block your address, please send me a request, containing Regards. Jo – Widow Remailer Administrator I don’t know really what we CAN do…maybe if enough of us complain. James:-)
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Is this person "anonymous sender" a real person or is it something set up to just automatically post to this board. Is there any way to get rid of him/her/it? And to you Mr. Anonymous Sender, who cares about addiction when the addiction(if it is such) may possibly be improving the quality of life for someone. Andrea Visit my website at http://buildingblox.homestead.com
Andrea – this is a troll known as popejed – he also uses many other names. He gets his fun out of tormenting people with anxiety/panic. Those of us who have been around for a while have come across him many times. Now he has improved his IQ to around 50 and learned to use anonymous remailers – really sad in a way :/ — Jon Guite Live support and chat for anxiety and panic disorders at the #anx/pan chat room in Dalnet. For details see http://www.skcldv.demon.co.uk/anxpanw.htm
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Is this person "anonymous sender" a real person or is it something set up to just automatically post to this board. Is there any way to get rid of him/her/it? And to you Mr. Anonymous Sender, who cares about addiction when the addiction(if it is such) may possibly be improving the quality of life for someone. Andrea Visit my website at http://buildingblox.homestead.com
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So I am a xanax abuser, purge me. I could care less, as long as I can live my life accordingly, anon you are a true ass.
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Studies of Xanax (see ahead) show that most patients develop withdrawal symptoms during routine treatment lasting only eight weeks. Tolerance, or the need for increasing doses to achieve the same psychoactive effect, is the underlying physical mechanism of addiction. Within two to four weeks, tolerance can develop to the sedative effect of minor tranquilizers taken at night for sleep.=A0 This again warns against the use of these drugs for more than a few days at a time. The short-acting benzodiazepines can produce especially severe withdrawal symptoms, because the drug is cleared from the body at a relatively rapid rate. These include Xanax, Halcion, Ativan, Restoril, and Serax. However, according to expert Louis Fabre in a February 1991 interview …, tightness of binding to receptors is probably more indicative of addictive potential, and the most tightly binding are Xanax, Halcion, Ativan, and Klonopin. Individuals who take only one pill daily for sleep or anxiety are not exempt from withdrawal problems. In my private practice during the last few years I have worked with several people who were unable to stop taking a once-a-day standard dose of Xanax, Ativan, Klonopin, or other minor tranquilizers. In each case, the attempt to stop the medication led to a disturbing degree of anxiety or insomnia within twenty-four hours. The problem seemed to be caused by rebound anxiety or rebound insomnia (see ahead). In a personal communication in late December 1990, internist John Steinberg confirmed that patients taking one Xanax tablet each day for several weeks can become addicted. Steinberg is medical director of the Chemical Dependency Program at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center and president of the Maryland Society of Addiction Medicine. He points to research that Xanax and other short-acting benzodiazepines can cause a reactive hyperactivity of the receptors that they block. The hyperactive receptors then require one or more doses of Xanax each day or they produce anxiety and emotional discomfort. Steinberg calls the impact of Xanax "a fundamental change in the homeostasis of the brain." After the patient stops taking the Xanax, according to Steinberg, it takes the brain six to eighteen months to recover. Xanax patients should be warned, he says, that it can take a long time to get over painful withdrawal symptoms. Since doctors frequently don’t realize this, they, too, are likely to be confused and to continue the drug in the hope of "treating" the patient’s drug-induced anxiety and tension. Many detoxification beds are occupied by patients addicted to minor tranquilizers and even more by those who are cross-addicted with alcohol and other drugs. Steinberg says that Xanax is "by far and away" the worst offender and that it definitely causes addiction without being mixed with other sedatives. Steinberg estimates that one in ten patients receiving Xanax will become addicted. * (Based on an estimated fifteen million people receiving Xanax each year in the United States, Steinberg concludes that 1.5 million Xanax addicts are produced each year.)"
