Abuse of Xanax Leads Clinic to Halt Supply

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Abuse of Xanax Leads Clinic to Halt Supply

September 14th, 2011

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

Abby Goodnough
New York Times
September 14, 2011

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Gayle Mink, a nurse practitioner at a community mental health center here, had tired of the constant stream of patients seeking Xanax, an anti-anxiety drug coveted for its swift calming effect.

“It is such a drain on resources,” said Ms. Mink, whose employer, Seven Counties Services, serves some 30,000 patients in Louisville and the surrounding region. “You’re funneling a great deal of your energy into pacifying, educating, bumping heads with people over Xanax.”

Because of the clamor for the drug, and concern over the striking number of overdoses involving Xanax here and across the country, Seven Counties took an unusual step — its doctors stopped writing new prescriptions for Xanax and its generic version, alprazolam, in April and plan to wean patients off it completely by year’s end.

The experiment will be closely watched in a state that has wrestled with widespread prescription drug abuse for more than a decade and is grasping for solutions as it claims more lives by the week. While Kentucky and other states have focused largely on narcotic painkiller addiction, experts say that benzodiazepines, the class of sedatives that includes Xanax, are also widely misused or abused, often with grim consequences.

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Ive used that for panic attacks for 20 years…. Only take it as needed, not 3 times a day like a Dr. would like… Never crave it or take it otherwise…. Doesnt make you high, just tired…. Now theyed like to put me on prozac,buspar,zolot!!!! Have to take it everyday for the rest of ones life AND its crazy expensive besides makes one a zombie!!!!