'Xanax' linked to more than 200 deaths - BBC News

Xanax kills. It is poison in the true sense of the word. Pharmaceutical companies make money on this legally sold drug. Pharmacies are called drug stores. Everything starts from the governments of the world.

They stop working after a few weeks. I was prescribed 2 a day, ended up after 2 weeks taking 8 a day. Then I jumped off, cold turkey in bed for 2 months.

In Finland there is counterfeit alprazolam brand name ksalol.
I have also used prescription xanor 2mg and xanor depot 2mg but when my methadone treatment started they took away all benzos and made taper from 6mg a xanor per day with Clonazepam 5mg and they reduced the dose 0,5mg /month it was good taper felt no bad

They eat them out of dispensers in the USA. They're called PEZ dispensers, i've seen em.

It's their own fault.

Well the NHS needs to improve itself. What are people supposed to do? You have people waiting literally years and years for treatment, often help that doesn't exist after all the waiting. Are we supposed to just live in isolation? People have to work, they have to function. Of course people are turning to treating things themselves, the system is completely a mess.
And a big problem here is the fact they're counterfeit pills. How many deaths were pharmaceutical grade pills?
Legalise, regulate, educate and watch the death toll drop. Let people know what they're putting in their bodies. Reporters talking about Xanax cut with Fentanyl. So that's 2 very different drugs, and legislation is causing the problem.

The war has failed, it's doing nothing but killing people. The access is there but the quality control is not. Introduce quality control and see things improve.
Or just keep watching people die. Completely backwards system.

Decades of Lives Destroyed, Because we Trusted our "Doctors." They should All have Their Medical Licenses Revoked. Any patient who has suffered this fate would say the same thing! Like the one who caused me to be permanently and severely disfigured due to Reckless Prescribing of these drugs.That "provider" Did have his LIcense Revoked because I filed a Report with The DEA, and They Investigated him. They knew the severe dangers of these drugs Many Decades Ago.

7minutes in... theres absolutely no way that dude thats talking is on 3 full bars of Xanax, its ovbiously chalk that hes buying.

I used to sell what the government would consider "Illegal Drugs" years ago but I always had morals and drew the line at anything that wasn't a naturally occurring substance. I only ever really sold Cannabis and Psilocybin Mushrooms. I've never had a customer give me bad feedback and if anything I give them a good service. Some choose to consume it for recreational purposes. I have no problem with that but what makes me really happy is when i used to sell to people with medical issues and they would contact me after consuming telling me how much better they feel and how it's helping them more than any of the medications the doctors would prescribe them. I feel like the govt should atleast tolerate people like me, we dont cause harm to anybody so i dont see why theyre so strict.

If all drugs were alot more open, tolerated and regulated, it would actually cause alot less problems and fix alot of them. Drug overdoeses would practically become unheard of as people would actually know what they're putting in their body, the drugs would be alot cleaner and dosing would be much more accurate. People wouldnt feel as ashamed to admit they have a problem and seek help. Crime would down as they're not having to go out doing unspeakable things to fund their habits. Thats just a few things I can list, and theres many more positives that would come from it.

For people on Heroin etc i think there should be centres that are open 24/7 for users/addicts to attend, to obtain their drug of choice from there, and if they choose to, consume it in the facility where there is medical supervision. I also believe that they should be allowed a free "daily allowance" of their drug of choise, say like 3 x 0.2g bags of Heroin per day. If they choose to consume more than the free 3 bags a day, they have to pay for any extra until theyre due their next allowance the following day.

It would be extremely interesting to see my explained method above being put to use one day. I really think it would bring many benefits, not just for the users/addicts, but for almost every community as a whole.

In Norway the illegal Xanax are luckily real.

love me some xannies😂

crazy to think people thought this was alot 4 years ago this epidemic has grown so much since then eversince f3nt came on the streets

If it’s counterfeit it’s not Xanax so it’s irrelevant

Funny thing I actually tried to overdose on it intentionally by taking 50 mg diazepam but back then my liver was fast so it didn't cause toxicity.
But nowadays I'm less tolerant and prolly 5mg clonazepam might do the trick

Dont take it more than once a week as its so addictive

You don’t even need to go on the dark web, it’s easy to get online! But if gp’s could prescribe it properly it would be managed better. The problem is drinking when taking it. And you can’t just stop, that’s more dangerous. And Xanax doesn’t make you high it’s like a benzodiazepine.

“They’re not working don’t worry mum” that is what benzos do, they give you delusions of sobriety, in your mind you are completely sober but from other peoples view you’re dribbling and slurring. The high of benzos is really a lack of a high and a lack of emotion.

I took 509 then 1000 I was fine I don’t get with draw and etc

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I have taken Xanax AS PRESCRIBED for ten years. I have never had to increase my dosage or buy off of the street. These are people that have abused the drug, they are not people that use it responsibly.

Going on about counterfeit drugs...Don't take any of this rubbish in the first place, counterfeit or otherwise.

I can understand it if people get addicted 'accidentally' from an official prescription (although private prescriptions can be dodgy). I have no sympathy, whatsoever, for people that take any drugs recreationally., and that includes Alcohol and Tobacco.
I feel the same about people that have elective cosmetic surgery.

Another thing they don’t mention is once you quit you’ll have worse anxiety then you did before you started taking them.

Again Don't understand shit he says only again, and again, hate Scottish accent...

A bit disingenuous to label counterfeit drugs 'xanax' deaths. If someone dies drinking rubbing alcohol, you wouldn't say they died from drinking. If someone died from K2, you wouldn't say they died from a marijuana overdose.

benzos in general make you feel calm. addictive. search gaba, they should make something that works the same thing that isnt addictive.,

Benzos saves also lives dont abuse

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Been taking Xanax everyday for 20 years. It's harmless in small doses. I have Tourettes Syndrome so it helps calm me down and suppress my tics. Dark web, illegal Xanax is mixed with Fentanyl, DO NOT TOUCH IT!

Its crazy most pressed xanax bars nowadays are made with research checmical benzos like clonazolam, or flubromazolam that are over 20x the strength of xanax. U can be blacked out for multiple days or even a week

Ive never seen another drug that has as many functioning drug addicts as xanax does. So many people are completly addicted to this and you would have no idea they even use drugs at all. Its a drug that u can be nearly blacked out from, and in many instances seem completly sober to the people around you. Theres not many drugs like that. Its a sad addiction.

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Very very sad

Just seeing bars makes me taste them …. I haven’t had one in YEARS- even the weather in the fall/early spring I can just taste it (bc those blackout seasons were the worst 🤷‍♂️)
Benzos are fricking insane

I take xanax from my dokter,wouw 😮

Xanax make me steal & I can have a pocket full of money & still I would like to take stuff y idk

Houston,tx! I love Xanax!🎉 I get mine at a Mexico 🇲🇽 pharmacy, never get pills on the street!don’t gamble with your life.

I tell you what, that xanax is really moorish

Benzos are weird there not addictive because if the high. There addictive because they get rid of your problems. Hands down opiates are the most euphoric, but i csn take or leave opiates. Benzos on the other hand get you stuck. If ypu dont get your dose, you dont just get sick, you get seizures. Opiates are dangerous when you use them, benzos are dangerous coming off.

Improves focus because anxiety is removed. And you’re just responding without fear

I would never buy them off the streets. Im prescribed xanax and zopiclone, and I only take them when I need them. I dont drink much so if iv had a stress free week Il take say 4mg xanax and 15mg zopiclone on Saturday evening at home watching netflix.

I was a benzo addict suffered number of seizures and memory lost. It's almost 5 years since i left those pills and that time was the worst

Ifnirnprescribed your okay and you taking my doctor tells you you don't take the whole to borrow you. Take a f**** 0.5 throughout the whole day. You take a 0.5 in the morning and when you having a lady attack you take another 0.5 and before you go to bed take 0.5 then you have a 0.5 in the morning cuz people are abusing them and they're not going to wear a doctor. I haven't been on health issues. I have my whole life but rest in peace man

The guy asking ‘why don’t you just quit’ doesn’t understand the absolute hell withdrawal is. And it can last up to a year so you feel like it will never end and it can also kill you. I’ve experienced seizures from it myself. And even once it does end; you feel shittier than you did when you decided to take Xanax in the first place because all the issues you’ve repressed have just built up even more and not been dealt with. At least with most other drugs you go through a few months of withdrawals and then at least feel better. Theirs no such reward system with Xanax. I think we need a treatment for people recovering from Xanax that is different from other programs.

Xanax (Alprazolam) has an astonishing LD50 of 2171mg/per kilogram of body weight. An 80kg person would have to consume 19 full grams (19000mg) of that stuff to die. Thats literally mountains of pills. No Xanax doesnt kill people, mixing Xanax with Alcohol, Opiates and other drugs is what kills people.

Xanax took 2 friends from this world. Danny cox and one of my oldest friend's claire marsh. I am so gutted she is gone, i keep having images of us playing in our back lane. Claire was such a sweet human, i loved her heart. She was very special. R.i.p both danny and claire. I am heartbroken.