Presenting: Drug Story - On Xanax and Anxiety
3/20/202646 min
This episode comes to you from the new podcast Drug Story, which investigates the origins, workings and cautionary tales behind today's medical interventions. In this episode, host Thomas Goetz investigates the rise of Xanax, a drug used to treat anxiety that has become one of the world's most counterfeited and abused drugs. What happens when a drug works too well, and how do we manage anxiety in an environment that seems to fuel it?
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This episode mentions death by suicide. If you are suffering emotional distress o...
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First 90 secondsThomas Goetz· Host0:00
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Juju Chang0:22
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Tim Harford· Host0:36
[instrumental music] Pushkin. A warning before we start. This episode mentions death by suicide. If you're suffering emotional distress or you're having suicidal thoughts, support is available. For example, from the nine eight eight Suicide and Crisis Lifeline in the US, or from the Samaritans in the UK. Taking a look at world events, anxiety is a fairly reasonable position to take. But when does anxiety cross over from a rational evolutionary response to a devastating medical condition? And what happens when the treatments work a little bit too well? This episode comes to you from the new podcast, Drug Story,