BUT if I had my time over again no way would I have popped that damn pill into my mouth day after day. I still wonder if withdrawing from it contributed to my grand mal seizure in 2012 and my husband is convinced it did. I stopped taking the Xanax daily around August 3 and had the seizure august 13. It causes physical dependence and my husband is a DDO and in their seminars many experts now say it is more addictive than heroin. I have since taken it again this year as recommended by GP and suffering withdrawal again as we speak. It's the pits