Just as with antidepressant or antianxiety drugs, prescriptions can only work with other non-pharmacological approaches.

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Since antianxiety medicine BuSpar went off-patent in April, for instance, sales of the drug have dropped 54%.

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Identifying and challenging self-defeating thoughts, and gradually facing the source of fears, can provide more lasting relief than antianxiety medications, psychologists say.

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He tried Xanax, an antianxiety pill, but it made him sleepy.

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BOSTON A common antianxiety drug, which like many medications ends up in rivers and streams in trace amounts, alters how fish behave, Swedish scientists reported Thursday.

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Next in Terlings Park's pipeline is an antianxiety drug that may have the benefits of Valium without the accompanying drowsiness, temporary memory loss and habit-forming effects.

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Dr. Schoen offers stories of patients he has treated, such as the student who suffered crippling panic attacks before tests and had become reliant on antianxiety medication.

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Better yet, drugs that could do the trick already existed in pharmaceutical laboratories--a class of medications called mGluR5 antagonists that had been originally developed as antianxiety medicines.

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Merck faces heavy competition in almost every area of brain research, especially from Pfizer, which has been working on substance P blockers for depression and on new, safer antianxiety drugs.

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Now big pharma needs an antianxiety pill.

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