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Good news for long tern Xanax users

Posted by Bill LL on February 24, 2005, at 9:55:27

I pasted this from an interview with a psychiatrist/neurologist/researcher named Stuart Shipko:
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Dr. Stuart Shipko: Patty: the website has educated a lot of educators.
Well, Xanax is highly dependency forming. That is, once started it may be
difficult to stop. About 1/3 of people on Xanax will be long term users.
However, the clinical efficacy of Xanax has been studied over a 20 year period,
and it seems to work as well or better than when it was started, and has no long
term effects that might be harmful as you age. It seems safe to take long term,
but discontinuation is not possible in a percentage of users.


Dearest: But Xanax isn't necessarily prescribed for depression, correct?


Dr. Stuart Shipko: Xanax is not useful for depression as they thought 15
years ago, but it has a much lower incidence of depressive side effects than
does Klonopin, the other BDZ approved for panic disorder by the FDA.


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