“Hospital sends her home with Xanax to cure her weed addiction.”
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Yup. Six of one, half dozen of the other. If it’s heavily monitored in a deescalated dosage down-to-nothing framework it might have some value. But you could do the same weaning-off with the original drug, pot.
I am actually aware of benzodiazepines being used to treat massive LSD overdoses, and I mean on the guaranteed fatal level as happened to a police officer on a drug raid once, where he was exposed to the equivalent of 1,000 hits of LSD at once. This would have killed him, the valium here saved his life by adjusting his CNS in the opposite manner of the LSD.
Here, even though THC is considered to be a mild hallucinogen, treating any adverse effect with Xanax seems preposterous, because Xanax is a highly physically addictive substance.
Xanax is not the drug of choice
librim valium, ativan would imho be better choices.