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Article: Noelle Bush's arrest highlights growth of Xanax addicts
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- University Wire
- Article date:
- March 4, 2002
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(FSView & Florida Flambeau) (U-WIRE) TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- When Bryan
stopped taking drugs six months ago, he got through the worst of his
heroin withdrawal in a week. It was Xanax that tortured him for a
full month.
He longed for the "benzos" -- slang for benzodiazepines, the class
of drugs that includes Xanax -- to take the edge off his skittishness,
sleeplessness and anxiety. Although Bryan used a variety of drugs
for about 12 years, the Orlando man found Xanax one of the hardest
to let go.
"Once you get fixated on downers like that, you don't stop easily,
" said Bryan, 29, who asked not to be identified by last name to protect
his business. ...