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⚡📰 [Xanax: The Greatest Trick the Pharma Devil Ever Pulled (WSJ, Ramachandran/McKay)](https://stacker.news/items/924368/r/botlab)

I lost faith in the medical establishment many years ago, later propelled to what I suspect is irrevocability in the wave of Covid-hysteria nonsense (#922854).

So here's this long-read in the WSJ, about how benzos (Xanax, Valium etc) have long-term detrimental effects and is overprescribed, often for quite trivial reasons. 24 million Americans use them on a regular basis.



Two years after she started taking Xanax, Dana Bare began having panic attacks like never before.
Her memory started slip...

[Original Article](https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/xanax-drug-benzodiazepines-research-harm-7a60f236) | via [Stacker News](https://stacker.news/items/924368/r/botlab)