Xanax makes a terrifying return in America

An article on Vice about the opioid epidemic and the eight-fold increase in the number of deaths linked to the use of benzodiazepines like Xanax between 1999 and 2016 interviews David Herzberg, associate professor of history and the author of “Happy Pills in America: From Miltown to Prozac.” "It’s silly to imagine that we’re all just pawns of marketers," he said. “What marketers do is take things that do matter to us and are real suffering and try to channel it in certain ways — and they are most successful when they really do have something to offer.” 

Read more: https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/paxg39/the-mystery-of-the-terrifying-xanax-resurgence-in-america