There are thousands of stories strewn about the internet speaking of the dangers of Xanax. Stories of teenagers blacking out, getting behind the while and killing themselves or someone else. Stories of overdose deaths and pharmacy hold-ups, all having to do with Xanax addiction. Knowing this, some people wonder why then are college health care centers providing Xanax so readily to their students?
This is not an easy question to answer. Xanax is legally prescribed for anxiety, however most people that are abusing the drug take it for the intense high that is provides. Interestingly, those who have a xanax abuse problem do not usually get the drug from dealers or off the internet. They get it prescribed to them from places like college health care centers. If that fails though, most addicts just go home, because in their parent’s medicine cabinet there is usually a bottle of Xanax.
Kids in college are under immense pressure to perfom. They stay up late cramming, they are away from home for the first time in their lives and they are around people they do not know. All of this combined has lead more and more college students to suffer from “anxiety” and seek out Xanax.
If you or anyone you know is in need of help for a Xanax addiction please enroll in an effective drug rehab. Do not wait until it is too late.