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em generic Xanax, noting that two nights before
she passed out, she'd run out of the pills she'd been using
for anxiety.After testing her blood and urine, staffers administered another
drug that, like Xanax, is in the benzodiazepine family."Almost immediately,
I stopped shaking and felt totally normal," Jenna said. "It was as
though nothing had ever happened. Nobody there told me, but I put
it together: I'd been in withdrawal. I was dependent on Xanax."Jenna had
first gotten a prescription eight years earlier when she was a student
and saw a doctor, complaining of insomnia. After discussing her problem,
"he decided I was anxious," she said. "I had a busier life
than some, but I didn't think I was especially anxious. He told
me there was this great drug I could take. He prescribed a
milligram per day of the generic form."At first, she loved it."It was
amazing," she said. "I could sleep anywhere, on the spot."A few months
later, though, her insomnia returned, along with a new sense of nervousness
that struck between pills. Over the next couple of years, her doctor
upped the dosage until it reached 6 mg per day, an unusually
high level.Jenna's experienceextreme as it isshows that this drug, which
more and more women today are using, may carry severe risks."Dependence
on benzodiazepines like Xanax is a serious problem, especially among young
women," said Harris Stratyner, cochairman of the medical scientific subcommittee
of the nonprofit
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<p style="font-size:xx-small;">e doctor.
He suggested increasing the dosage, but she refused. She'd become concerned
about her reaction to the drug."Between doses, it felt like my spine
was hooked up to an electrical socket and there was a chemical
storm inside my head," she said.The symptoms were worst when she woke
up: "I had to keep my pills beside my bed so that
before I even opened my eyes, I'd be melting one under my
tongue. I'd dry heave and cry until it kicked in."Then one morning,
she experienced what's known as a paradoxical adverse reactiona rare, unexpected
response to a drug that can't be explained. She had popped her
pill and was lying there waiting for it to take hold, except
nothing happened. She felt so scared and shaky that she took another.
And then, in a half hour, one morefollowed by a fourth one
30 minutes later. Within minutes of downing the last pill, her legs
began shaking violently. The toes on her left foot curled up, and
her tongue stiffened."The next thing I remember is the paramedics running
in," she said. "I'd had a seizure."The debilitating pangs of interdose withdrawal
had been awful enough. Now, Kim started to worry about how she
would ever get off the drug.What makes it even rougher for women
who become dependent on benzos is that many physicians do not fully
understand how to wean them off the medication."While most doctors should
know how to taper properly, not everyone does," Birndorf said.Few women
are more aware of that tha
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Johnson said the universitys council voted to change the schools name to
the Crusaders from the Fighting Lutherans, which was deemed inappropriate
at the time. Other names considered at the time were the Saints
and the Purple Knights, Johnson told FoxNews.com.Elsewhere, at Clarke University
in Iowa, president Joanne Burrows said the Crusaders nickname is on solid
footing.I cannot comment on what is appropriate for Maranatha Baptist as
they can and should do what they believe to be in the
best interest of their institution, Burrows wrote FoxNews.com in an e-mail.A
spokesman at Belmont Abbey College in North Carolina told FoxNews.com the
"Crusader" name is an 80-year tradition at the university, where it's a
source of pride representing "heroism, chivalry and piety."Ibrahim Hooper,
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