I never heard of prescribing xanax for pain. Anxiety, panic attacks, and in conjuction with one of the antidepressants for depression. Valium has more of a muscle relaxing action to it so some people got them for back spasm pain and it's used for alcohol withdrawl but up to now i never heard of xanax being prescribed for pain.
You have to be careful with all the benzo's, you don't think they're a big deal until you stop taking them, espescially if you took them for any length of time.
Yeah, they'll wean you off a Benzo with a short half-life (like Xanax) with a Benzo with a long half-life (like Valium), and vice versa. But all that does is trick your body for a little while. At the end of the day you're still gonna have a problem.
