How Bad Is It to Take a Xanax When You Can’t Sleep?

It’s the middle of the night, and you can’t sleep. Time to choose your own adventure:

1. Toss and turn all night, angsting about the sleep you aren’t getting.

2. Make a steaming cup of something warm and try to sip yourself to sleep.

3. Pop the Xanax you got for the last time you flew cross-country and thank modern medicine for all it’s good for.

If you’re anything like us, when you go against your doctor’s orders (“Only take one for anxiety before a flight”), you feel uneasy. But you rationalize: One’s not going to kill me.

Continued: https://greatist.com/grow/sleep-better-xanax#takeaway