The generic version of the popular anti-anxiety prescription drug Xanax is being recalled over the “potential presence” of a “foreign substance,” according to a statement by the Food and Drug ...

How Xanax affects your body can vary by your age, mental state when you take the drug, dosage, and other factors. It may have a sedative effect that can make you feel calmer. This drug has boxed ...

Xanax is the brand name of alprazolam, which is a type of benzodiazepine. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have not approved Xanax as a treatment for insomnia. An alternative treatment for ...

Xanax isn't the most dangerous prescription pill on the market, but the anti-anxiety drug is so addictively powerful that doctors are starting to treat the benzodiazepine medicine as if it were an ...

This drug has boxed warnings. These are the most serious warnings from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Boxed warnings alert doctors and patients about drug effects that may be dangerous.

"Everyone likes Xanax," says Philip R. Muskin, M.D., a professor of psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center and a distinguished life fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. That's ...

The US-style bar-shaped version of the drug is the form that is most commonly traded among teenagers - but there are many counterfeit versions Children as young as 11 are being treated for abusing the ...

Jenna woke up on her kitchen floor. Dimly, the California teacher remembered bending over the sink, trying to swallow water. According to the clock, that had been more than an hour ago. She fumbled ...

In 2006, I started taking Xanax and continued, more rather than less, for the next 17 years. The drug was first prescribed to me after I experienced a panic attack. I had thought that I was dying. My ...

At least one San Francisco-area drug user died and eight more landed in the ER in late 2015 after taking counterfeit Xanax tablets that had been cut with a powerful and dangerous opiate, a new report ...

Kyle Remzi, a computer science student at Essex University, died aged 20 after an overdose in 2017 At least 204 deaths have been linked to the misuse of anxiety drug Xanax in the UK since 2015, ...