When my primary care doctor prescribed Klonopin to treat my severe anxiety in the months before and after major surgery in December 2021, I had no idea that getting off the drug later - as well as the ...

Xanax, aka Alprazolam, can help treat short-term anxiety but is highly addictive and comes with many side effects from drowsiness to constipation.

Dr. Peter Grinspoon, pictured in Newton on Jan. 5, 2019, survived an addiction to opioids. (Pat Greenhouse/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) It is a frozen winter afternoon in February 2015, and I am ...