Does Xanax Potentiate Narcotic Effects?

Aside from the sedative effect of Xanax and alcohol, someone told me that some patients prescribed narcotics take Xanax to increase the narcotic effects? Is this true?

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Soma is a big favorite with narcotic patients but sure, it is accurate to say that Xanax does cause this effect to some degree.

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People abuse benzodiazepines. It’s a bad idea though. Take too many and you won’t even remember what you did. And it does intensify the effect of opiates and tends to increase one's risk of overdosing because of this. Please don’t do this if you wanna stay alive. Seen too many people OD or die.

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The effects are usually due to an increased severity of the side effects, when they are taken together, which the FDA lists as possibly including nausea, dizziness, drowsiness, sedation, and somnolence.

You can learn more here including the potential dangers of combining them.

That said, most doctors are very cautious about prescribing them together, due to the associate risks, such as lowered heart rate, lowered breath rate, and extreme sedation, because there is a risk of it being fatal.

Have they both been prescribed for you?

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