Also known as alprazolam, Xanax is the registered name for this member of the benzodiazepine family. Find more information on our Colorado Xanax addiction treatment program here.
Xanax is often prescribed to treat anxiety disorders, panic disorders, and anxiety caused by depression.
Xanax is the number one American-prescribed psychiatric medication. An Addiction Center survey discovered that over seventy percent of those who started using this drug as teens and developed a Xanax addiction started with a supply in their parents’ medicine cabinet.
Further, according to a CBS News report in 2011, Xanax was the eleventh most prescribed drug in the US in 2011 and, as of 2018, is now among the top 9 prescribed medications.
Recent media reports show a high level of concern that Xanax and other drugs like it are being overused in Colorado. According to a 2018 report by the National Institute of Drug Abuse Colorado deaths related to benzodiazepines like Xanax have doubled in the years from 2003 to 2012. Xanax abuse is rapidly increasing.
In 2011, the Drug Abuse Warning Network reported that nearly ten percent of all emergency department visits related to the abuse of prescription drugs of benzodiazepine families like Xanax.