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Apr 20, 2025 2:45 PM CDT

Salmon Grow Bolder on Anxiety Drugs

Study has implications for medications entering our waterways

(Newser) - Anxiety drugs change the behavior of humans—and a new study suggests they change the behavior of salmon, too. Researchers in Sweden set out to study how medication that leeches into waterways might affect fish, explains NPR . They implanted two drugs in various amounts in about 280 farm-raised salmon: clobazam,...

FDA Recognizes LSD as a Breakthrough Therapy

FDA: LSD Is Now a
Breakthrough Therapy

Mar 9, 2024 5:15 PM CST

FDA: LSD Is Now a Breakthrough Therapy

Mind Medicine's anxiety-treating MM120 granted designation ahead of Phase 3 trials

(Newser) - The FDA has bestowed breakthrough therapy status on an LSD formulation found to relieve symptoms of anxiety and depression with a single dose. Mind Medicine's MM120 (lysergide d-tartrate) is used to treat generalized anxiety disorder. Twelve weeks after receiving a dose in a Phase 2 trial, 48% of patients...

Lena Dunham: I Got Addicted to Anxiety Med

Lena Dunham:
I'm 6 Months Sober

Oct 29, 2018 5:00 PM CDT

Lena Dunham: I'm 6 Months Sober

'Girls' star got addicted to Klonopin

(Newser) - Lena Dunham is six months sober after getting addicted to the anxiety medication Klonopin, People reports. The Girls star said during an appearance on Dax Shepard's podcast that her anxiety and PTSD got so bad she easily found a doctor to prescribe the drug. "I was having crazy...

Fatal Overdoses of Common Anxiety Meds Are Spiking

Feb 19, 2016 10:30 AM CST

Fatal Overdoses of Common Anxiety Meds Are Spiking

'Benzos' such as Xanax and Valium overprescribed, say study authors

(Newser) - Opioids aren't the only drugs we should be concerned about when it comes to overdoses. ODs involving common anxiety drugs like Xanax and Valium are at an all-time high, and scientists fear plenty of lives will be lost before they fully understand why. In a new study , researchers found...

Anti-Anxiety Drug
Makes Fish Live Longer

STUDY SAYS

Aug 8, 2014 11:30 AM CDT

Anti-Anxiety Drug Makes Fish Live Longer

Human tranquilizer makes perch aggressive but also seems to increase longevity

(Newser) - On the one hand, fish exposed to the tranquilizer oxazepam when it seeps into their waters kind of become jerks, reports a study in Nature . On the other hand, this same drug, a benzodiazepine used to treat anxiety and insomnia in human adults, apparently helps them live longer, reports Nature...