Martha McPhee
Writer and longtime patient who recounts a multiyear dependence on Xanax after panic attacks, sharing a first-person account of symptoms, treatment, and recovery.
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Feb 3, 2026 • 46min
On Xanax and anxiety
Dr. Andrew John Saxon, a psychiatry professor emeritus who explains benzodiazepines and withdrawal, and Martha McPhee, a writer who shares a multiyear Xanax dependence. They discuss Xanax’s fast relief and addictive risk. They trace anxiety’s evolutionary role, how the drug works, withdrawal and tapering, and cultural and regulatory shifts around tranquilizers.
