Dr. Ross Grumet

I awoke from a dream: The whole world, everyone, is using Xanax or a related benzodiazepine (such as Klonopin, Valium, Ativan, Restoril, Librium, Tranxene, Serax, and others). Some are also using a related sleep medication which affects some of the same GABA receptors (Ambien, Lunesta, Sonata). Are we physicians making the same mistakes we made …

The trouble with Xanax is that it works too well.” I have said this to my patients who are requesting prescriptions for this medication, generally people I am seeing for the first time who want to continue the medication they have been using over months or years. It works too well in the sense that …

People come to psychiatrists or therapists for three main reasons: To change their thoughts, feelings, habits and actions, or skills in getting to some goal. To change relationships or social situations, including improving or ending these. To change their living or working environment or to receive something they deserve from another person or business or agency …