If we go back sixty years, psychiatry in the US was still running in parallel with the European tradition of scientific method. This produced carefully defined diagnoses for general conditions, leaving practitioners with some flexibility to take a common sense view of the individual patient. Hence, the technical term might be a “nervous breakdown” which is a catch-all definition for anyone who has a few problems. But as the pharmaceutical industry used its economic power, these broad definitions were increasingly broken down into separate classes of disorder. As each new batch of disorders was defined, the manufacturers produced drugs specifically targeting each new disorder. In reality, people are still having nervous breakdowns and, truth be told, all the major drugs are interchangeable because the separate disorders are really only one or two basic types.

What prompted this redefinition of terms? Firstly, the introduction of the benzodiazepines. The manufacturers wanted a distinction between anxiety disorders and depression for marketing purposes. Once the APA gave in, it was the slippery slope to the present confused mess. As everyone knows, all depression has elements of anxiety and panic, just as anxiety and panic are indistinguishable from elements in depression. Recent surveys have found doctors routinely prescribing benzodiazepines such as xanax regardless of the diagnosis as anxiety or depression, and finding the same excellent results. Secondly, the APA wanted to move away from Freudian analysis and to ground diagnosis in observable symptoms. This led to the introduction of “major depression” and “bipolar disorder” which lump different sets of symptoms together in either a stable or unstable form. As the SSRIs came in as treatments for major depression, the pressure to keep inventing new disorders grew. Now all the anxiety and panic disorders are multiplying. Needless to say, xanax remains the most effective treatment no matter what labels are attached to the symptoms. If you are anxious, xanax is the answer. Sadly, the APA will not sympathize with such a simple view of the world.

Here are some of the reasons for teenage usage of Xanax without a prescription:

Relaxed Feeling After Taking The Dose:

Anti-anxiety pills are similar to ecstasy. They give you a blissful feeling. Teenagers want to use them to relax and free themselves from any kind of stress, little or big.

Inexpensive:

Anti-anxiety pills like Xanax are easily reached by teenagers. These pills are affordable and very cheap. The price of three pills on the streets is not more than 5 dollars.

Easy Environmental Availability:

Many teenagers confess that Xanax is easily accessible as they can ask their relatives for a pill and they would not hesitate to give their kids one or two.

No Immediate Side-effects:

Anti-anxiety pills’ effect is not noticeable straight away. Teenagers are not bothered at all about analyzing their calm and indifferent state.

Teenagers are treating themselves as drug-addicts from the very first dose they take as it creates a very pleasant feeling they cannot refuse on. It is very hard to quit taking Xanax as boys and girls are fixated on the idea they need more of it before they actually do. These pills are usually taken with energy drinks that give even more effect.

It is interesting to note that teenagers give these pills various names depending on the shape or color of it. Girls consider Xanax to be safer than regular drugs and boys, on the contrary, prefer cannabis or cocaine, thought both sexes enjoy the fact that they can buy generic Xanax online quite easily.

It is parents’ job to raise the kids with the awareness of the true meaning of relaxation and they should be more concerned about the ways their children are exploiting medicine, because Xanax is only meant to be used by those who desperately need it for medical purposes.