Benzodiazephines are often a thorn in the recovery communities side in that some psychiatrists and mental health workers prescribe them to recovering addicts and alcoholics for anxiety.  They are known to be addictive in their nature and that’s what one state is definitely saying.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last year reported an 89 percent increase in emergency room visits nationwide related to nonmedical benzodiazepine use between 2004 and 2008. And here in Kentucky, the combination of opiate painkillers and benzodiazepines, especially Xanax, is common in fatal overdoses, according to the state medical examiner.

Read more in the NY Times article: Abuse of Xanax Leads a Clinic to Halt Supply