[SarahW]

Xanax!? Oh give me a break. That'll be over the counter in a few years.

[Dubya]

I'm requesting prayer for Noelle Bush and the Bush family. I hope she will realize that what she needs is Jesus.

[FourtySeven]

Police said she was attempting to obtain Xanax, which is used to treat anxiety disorder.

Looks like she's hitting that Xanax pretty hard.

[RetiredArmy]

Man what a photo. Run for it everyone! What drugs do to your mind AND looks! Wow!

[chouli]

geez couldn't she do better than a drug like that? She could get that from any doc. Didn't have to try to forge the Rx.

[bulldog905]

Alprazolam ( Xanax )

Alprazolam ( Xanax, Alprazolam Intensol, Novo-Alprazol )
In Canada ( Apo-Alpzar,  Nu-Alpraz )

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        Alprazolam is an antianxiety agent,  benzodiazepines.  Used primarily for short-term relief of mild to moderate anxiety and nervous tension.   Alprazolam is also effective in the treatment of activity depression or panic attacks. It can be useful in treating irritable bowel syndrome and anxiety due to a neurosis as well.  Alprazolam may help the symptoms of PMS if extreme,  some cancers pains if given with various narcotics,   agoraphobia,  essential tremor,  and ringing ears.

CLASS:  Triazolo Benzodiazepines.
Generic name: Alprazolam.
Type:  Antianxiety.

Strengths:

Oral Solution:
0.25mg ,   0.5 mg
1 mg / 5 ml,  0.25mg  / 2.5 ml.

Tables:
0.25mg, 0.5 mg, 1 mg, 2 mg.

Dosages: Actual dosage must be determined by a physician.

Normal dosage: 

USE UP TO EIGHT MONTHS ONLY!

If under 18 years of age,  DO NOT USE!
18 to 60 years of age,  0.25mg to 1.5mg daily.
Over 60 years of age,  Lower dosage increased cautiously.

Dosage Depends on Disorder:

Oral ( For anxiety or nervous tension ):
Start : 0.25 mg to 0.5 mg 3 times daily.
Maximum : 4 mg in 24 hours.

Oral ( For panic disorder ):
Start : 0.5 mg 3 times daily.
Increases : 1 mg daily in 3 to 4 day intervals.
Maximum : 10 mg in 24 hours.

Problems with:

Liver Function:  If liver disease present,  start dosage at 0.25mg,  increase as needed.
Kidney Function:  N/A.

Test:

Before taking:  None if for short term use.
While taking:  None if for short term use.

Take With:  With or without food.

Full Benefits In:  First day to a week.

Missed Dose(s):  If within one hour take,   if over an hour skip and then continue on your normal schedule. 
Never Take a Double Dose!

If Stop Taking:  Do not stop without consulting your physician and never abruptly if have been taking for over three weeks.

Overdose symptoms include:  Confusion,  loss of consciousness,  or sleepiness.
Can be fatal.

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Warnings

Do not stop taking abruptly.

Do not give this drug to anyone who is psychotic.

Narcotics may increase the sedative effects of this drug.  Do not take other sedative,  benzodiazepines,  or sleeping pills with this drug.  The combinations could be fatal.  Do not drink alcohol when taking benzodiazepines.  Alcohol can lower blood pressure and decrease your breathing rate to the point of unconsciousness.

The habit-forming potential is high.  It is possible to become dependent in the first few days.  Do not stop taking this drug abruptly,  this could cause psychological and physical withdrawal symptoms.

Do not take this drug if you are pregnant or planning to become pregnant.  Do not take if you are breast-feeding.  Do not give this drug to anyone under eighteen and only in small doses if over sixty with very close monitoring.

Do not use If:  You had negative reactions to other benzodiazepines,  if you have a history of drug dependence,  if you have had a stroke,  if you have multiple sclerosis,  if you have Alzheimer's disease,  if you are seriously depressed,  or if you have other brain disorders.  If you have myasthenia gravis or acute narrow-angle glaucoma.

Inform Physician If:  If you have a seizure disorder,  impaired liver / kidney function,  history of alcoholism / drug abuse,   psychosis,  palpitations,  or Tachycardia.

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Alprazolam ( Symptoms or Effects )

Common: Clumsiness / Sleepiness.

Rare:  Abdominal cramps,  blurred vision,  dry mouth, racing heartbeat / palpitations,  shaking / slurred speech,  urination problems, convulsions,  hallucinations,  memory loss,  trouble breathing,   staggering / trembling,  headache,  confusion,  sore breast / milk secretion,  or irregular menstruation.

See physician always:  Abdominal cramps,  blurred vision,   dry mouth,  racing heartbeat / palpitations, shaking / slurred speech,   urination problems,  convulsions,  hallucinations,  memory loss, trouble breathing,  staggering / trembling,  headache,  confusion,   sore breast / milk secretion,  or irregular menstruation.

See physician if severe:  Clumsiness / Sleepiness.

See physician NOW:  Convulsions,   hallucinations,  memory loss,  trouble breathing,  or staggering / trembling.

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[madison10]

She looks years OLDER than her dad. Man, she needs help.

[FresnoDA]

You, are, so, beautiful.......to me!!!!!!

 

[Right Wing Professor]

There's no excusing this, but it should be mentioned that Xanax is only Schedule 4; it's not a narcotic, and it's in the same category as valium and fenfluramine. Not exactly a 'hard drug', in other words.

[Saundra Duffy]

You know what? I would like to thank all the FReepers who posted here. I emailed some of this information to my son who has been taking this crap (doctor's orders). My son emailed me back and he's all upset about the side effects he never understood. Now he is going to rethink his treatment all together. He has also been taking Effexor and I went on the Internet and looked it up for side effects, too. My son has been going through divorce angst and the ex even got a restraining order and he hasn't seen his kids for almost THREE MONTHS!!! During this three months, my son was suffering from both anxiety and depression and to make matters worse he came down with a painful case of KIDNEY STONES. Anyway, I am so very grateful to you posters who got this life-saving information to my attention and I passed it on to my sweet son. God bless Jeb Bush's daughter, too. This is some scary sh--!! Thanks again.

[pgkdan]

What a shame. I've got an adult sister who has got a real weakness for coke...i know first hand how drugs can devestate a family. I'm praying for her and for the Bushes. There's noting funny here, only tragedy.

[Johnny Shear]

This is Jeb's Roger Clinton. If not worse. That picture looks like something off Cops. She should be ashamed.

This is also another reason people need to lay-off Chelsea. Yeah, it's fun bashing her, but it doesn't look good on a public message board. IMHO.

[Jonathon Spectre]

Why isn't this woman locked in a cage with violent criminals yet? She broke THE LAW. She is a "drug offender". She must be caged and then labelled as such for the rest of her life. Nothing else will suffice. The guilty must be punished, even if they are guilty of nothing. THE LAW must be respected, even if it is senseless. Obey THE LAW, and you will be left alone. Perhaps.

Another post brought to you by the War on (Some) Drugs.

[Alissa]

Anyone want to put the Kennedy "dynasty" up against the Bush "dynasty" for dysfunctional kids?

[bushfamfan]

That is a horrible photo of Noelle. I'm sure the idiots waited for just the right time to snap the picture. I wonder if this problem of hers had anything to do with her not being at President Bush's inaugural? These Bush girls, I don't know.

[KneelBeforeZod]

[GeronL]

well, geez, the Presidents neice got hooked on a prescription drug?? where's the impeachment process???

[metesky]

This is where the rubber hits the road, friends.

Good parants always wonder what they did wrong in these situations, when the truth is it's just the luck of the draw. Some kids are going to go through hard times no matter how strong an upbringing they have.

I hope this dumbo can rehabilitate herself (All rehabilitation comes from within), before she ends up like George McGoverns daughter, tits up in a snowbank.

[ChadGore]

yikes . . . she almost looks like a democrat

[Stone Mountain]

From the Orlando Sentinel:

http://orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orl-locmiket31013102jan31.column?coll=orl%2Dhome%2Dheadlines

Noelle Bush needs help, as all addicts do

Published January 31, 2002

I knew Noelle Bush had a drug problem before she was arrested.

The state editor told me.

He knew because most of the reporters in Tallahassee who cover the governor knew about it.

We are not the mudslingers we are portrayed to be. This was Jeb's family affair and had no bearing on his job, so it was off-limits.

But when Noelle was arrested, the family matter became a criminal matter and therefore a story.

From a political perspective, it will be embarrassing and distracting for Bush. I hope it will be one more thing -- enlightening.

In the booking picture of Noelle Bush, she looks like she could have been arrested on a street corner, trying to earn enough for her next fix. She has the hollow-eyed, defeated look of an addict.

But when an addict is the daughter of a doctor, lawyer or governor, she is upgraded to "victim of substance abuse."

The only real difference between substance abusers and addicts is the drug they are addicted to and their financial resources.

Poor crack users are addicts. Wealthy prescription-drug users are substance abusers.

We think of one as a criminal -- and the other as a family problem.

I am not saying Noelle Bush is a criminal, far from it. Jail will do her no good. When it comes to addiction, all jail does is delay the next fix.

What I am saying is: Let's put all addicts in the same boat and treat them the same way.

Addiction is a medical problem, resulting from a mix of social and personal issues, possibly aggravated by genetic predisposition.

And yet we continue to attack the problem with cops and courts, which is why we haven't made any headway since the 1960s in curbing addiction. Our generation has been doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past generation. We toss aside reality for law-and-order rhetoric.

For the past 10 years, more people have been sent to jail for drug offenses than any other charge. Last year, almost 29 percent of Florida prisoners had been convicted of drug offenses. Karen Johnson, a woman whose main crime was addiction to painkillers, died of withdrawal in the Orange County Jail last year.

I am not familiar with Noelle Bush's case except that she has been in drug-treatment centers in the past and the problem has been ongoing for years. But I wonder if she could have wound up like Karen Johnson if her parents didn't have the resources to intervene.

The Bushes did what any of us would do in the circumstances. They tried to help their loved one and to keep her out of the criminal-justice system. If not for that support, she may well have run afoul of the law years ago.

Noelle will not go to jail, nor should she unless she endangers somebody. But what is right for her also is right for some other addicts who wind up in jail because they have no money or family support.

They need help, not punishment. Yet the Department of Corrections, under Jeb Bush, has approved a $13 million budget cut that will slash drug-treatment programs for inmates and scale back programs to help addicts outside the prisons.

It's not because the programs don't work. Of those prisoners who completed the treatment program, 70 percent stayed out of jail.

Jeb Bush should look at Noelle and consider what her fate would be if she were being sent off to a jail cell with nobody there to help her.

And if that thought grabs at a father's heart, then he should reconsider what his administration is doing.