Is Anti-Anxiety Medication The Next U.S. Drug Crisis? | NBC Nightly News

Is Anti-Anxiety Medication The Next U.S. Drug Crisis? | NBC Nightly News

Prescriptions have increased more than 60 percent in the last two decades and overdose deaths involving them have more than quadrupled between 2002 and 2015, promptings some states to limit the number of pills a patient can be prescribed.
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Is Anti-Anxiety Medication The Next U.S. Drug Crisis? | NBC Nightly News

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  1. @jb8801 on October 26, 2024 at 3:39 pm

    I was on a Benzo for 22 years. One day the doctor said we are not doing this anymore. She claimed it was bad for my kidneys. Other doctors said they are addictive. They were not addictive. Had no problem getting off. The problem was the anxiety attacks started and my doctors refused to put me back on. Found a new doctor. These doctors are stopping to prescribe it because of the opate crisis. Opiate and benzos are deadly. But if you are not an opiate addict you should be able to get a unit-anziety med… And I don’t mean the anti-histamines (just makes you drowsy) the hospital gave me or the sleeping pills for nighttime. The doctors don’t want to be responsible if someone comes into the hospital and they give you some kind of opaite not know if you are on anti – anxiety meds. So it’s ok for patients to suffer.

  2. @d_strubs1366 on October 26, 2024 at 3:39 pm

    I love my Xanax script but I’d have to be ignorant to say benzos aren’t overly prescribed

  3. @JP-gv1uz on October 26, 2024 at 3:40 pm

    My wife died because of that.

  4. @loriloy7842 on October 26, 2024 at 3:40 pm

    This ruins it for people who actually need it and take the meds right. It’s not the med itself that overdoses people. It’s when they don’t take it the way they’re supposed to..

  5. @Ms.LisaDawn on October 26, 2024 at 3:40 pm

    Yes a drug crisis. Sadly once doctors get you on these meds you become a slave to them. I have chronic anxiety disorder..my first physician said I would never get better. Everyone needs to beware of doctors who keep throwing meds at you. It is better to find a good counselor before being prescribed meds.

  6. @salpine on October 26, 2024 at 3:41 pm

    This has been a crisis for a long time. The only new thing is that it’s finally being treated as such.

  7. @mrjamesmonkey on October 26, 2024 at 3:44 pm

    Lol its been a crisis well before 5 years lolBxanax was my D.O.C in jr high with a bit of b then i seitched it to mainly b and a bit of xanax. And that was over 10 years ago

  8. @Skoopyghost on October 26, 2024 at 3:44 pm

    As a Junkie. Even if it doesn’t cause a high. I avoid medication like the plauge today.

  9. @DerhamPaul-vo8fr on October 26, 2024 at 3:45 pm

    I’ve just taken a Valium

  10. @LazerKrohn on October 26, 2024 at 3:47 pm

    And if it is, who cares, we don’t need the stupid media to tell us about that just leave it

  11. @im415again on October 26, 2024 at 3:48 pm

    Sure let’s stop giving this to people. It’s not like overall anxiety has increased over the past three years amirite??

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  15. @joannthomases9304 on October 26, 2024 at 3:51 pm

    Came of that med after 20 year nooooo problem at all. The anxiety = the problem !!!!! It does not go. I had my daughter with me loving me, so i was fine. The worry of the anxiety still coming when i spoke to any crowd was an impossibility like zero brain shaking vocals body lockup to not rivet shake crazily…😂 it’s funny to say but is a real horror to see.

  16. @temureviewer33 on October 26, 2024 at 3:52 pm

    I was on Valium for nine years the worst withdrawals ever sober nine years

  17. @greyghost1962 on October 26, 2024 at 3:53 pm

    This is mostly all very untrue. It is terrifying this effort to eliminate good medication. I suffer from debilitating anxiety attacks that last for months, benzodiazepines especially clonazepam have been life saving for me. Ive been taking it on and off for months at a time, the last few years, never had to increase the dose and always relieves anxiety to get me through horrible episodes. I had difficult deployments from my time in the military, and am thankful I can have somewhat a normal life. Ive done years of therapy, hypnosis, CBT, and others that have been helpful however medication has been the only succesful option to get through the attacks. I appreciate all of the concern but there are no other medications with our current technology to replace them. There has been work recently with psilocybin and even targeted lobotomy ( gamma ray encapsulation) but these options are years from being available. Please remember the people who use these medications to stay alive, thank you

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  20. @LaLuz-w1j on October 26, 2024 at 3:59 pm

    Lets pray for those that are out on the streets

  21. @andersfraodense on October 26, 2024 at 3:59 pm

    "The best treatment is behavioural interventions" yes yes pay thousands of dollars to a psychiatric and see no progress. I don’t take these drugs because I think it is fun. Stupid cow

  22. @JohnnyRebKy on October 26, 2024 at 3:59 pm

    Meanwhile virtually harmless thc remains illegal

  23. @1235gh on October 26, 2024 at 4:02 pm

    B.s responsible use and taken only when needed. I’ve been on benzo for 11 years and I haven’t got addicted. So why ban them?

  24. @loriloy7842 on October 26, 2024 at 4:02 pm

    There are people that need it. I take mine correctly. I can’t stand to be myself cause of the way I feel with my anxiety. When I have my real bad attacks. That’s when I take it,I haven’t overdosed cause I take it like my dr tells me to.

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  26. @loriloy7842 on October 26, 2024 at 4:04 pm

    A doctor knows to wing you off.

  27. @psychedelicartistry on October 26, 2024 at 4:04 pm

    I saw this coming years ago and so I’m almost tapered off of my klonopin. Overdose from benzos happens when you drink/take opioids with them, but I’ve been on subs/benzos for 10 years. The sad thing is doctors only believe the w/d last for a couple of weeks and when ppl come in a month or two later complaining that the w/d are still happening the doctors right them off I think that anybody who has suffered as a result of these prescribing guidelines should work together to sue the CDC and state regulatory commissions back into the stone age!

  28. @BroncoBill321 on October 26, 2024 at 4:06 pm

    Five years later and benzos are the least of Americas problems

  29. @LaLuz-w1j on October 26, 2024 at 4:06 pm

    People suferin help the look the light

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  31. @LittleGhost1979 on October 26, 2024 at 4:15 pm

    Its already a problem

  32. @fishiesz2371 on October 26, 2024 at 4:16 pm

    I’m so sad that people don’t realize they ruining the anti anxiety meds who really need it. Like people with really bad anxiety or some mental issues or like social anxiety and etc

  33. @salpine on October 26, 2024 at 4:17 pm

    "No more than 2-4 weeks" – Try 8 days on Ativan and ending up in acute w/d in the ER and on year 4 of a third reinstated taper and a shattered life. I would do anything to go back and try something pill free. Yes I was having chronic panic attacks for a week after an acupuncture treatment, but who knows what would have happened if I waited it out, got through the healing crisis reaction and tried CBD and de-stressing techniques and ate better food, and got out of the stressful environment I was in first. I’d give anything to go back to that time even if I was pretty miserable and I wish the doctor told me no when I asked for emergency benzos.

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  35. @psychedelicartistry on October 26, 2024 at 4:18 pm

    The news likes to trigger emotional reactions in people who don’t know any better so that they can push an agenda. These meds can and do help people, especially when taken in the short-term. Long-term you can have serious w/d, but the single biggest problem is when the news airs stories like this and doctors start taking people’s prescriptions away.

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  37. @xflyingtiger on October 26, 2024 at 4:21 pm

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  43. @Juliette20382038 on October 26, 2024 at 4:31 pm

    Omg it’s been a huge problem for atleast 15 years now, I knew people even 20 years back that abused them. However 20 years ago, even 15 years ago no one knew they were addictive. Atleast most people did not know, not only are they addictive but you can actually die from the withdrawals. Also most of the time , depending on the quantity and length of someone’s use the withdrawals are usually 20 times worse than opiates.

  44. @tiffanye9403 on October 26, 2024 at 4:34 pm

    I took Valium for severe ptsd for nine years my doctors where supposed to take me off at 3 months but they didn’t but I was on it for nine years

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  49. @lazzaromorrone2063 on October 26, 2024 at 4:36 pm

    It takes 3 months to get addicted to Benzos not 3 weeks.

  50. @loriloy7842 on October 26, 2024 at 4:36 pm

    This is why your not supposed to be just tooken straight off. You have to be winged off.

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