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Mixing Xanax with Alcohol?

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Alright,

I'm new here and to be frank, I probably won't be posting very often. I just have a question and every time I bring it up on Yahoo Answers, a bunch of self-righteous douche bags start judging me. So I figure this is a better forum to ask.

So here's the breakdown. Sorry to be bore you with the story. I'm prescribed to Xanax... 0.5 mgs... It's not an everyday thing, mostly just for when I get in anxious situations. So my fraternities formal function is this Saturday and I got randomly setup with my date, something I've never dealt with before. So I'm trying to just be relaxed and not tense about everything. Of course, being the event it is, I'm going to be drinking... a lot.

Me and my friends are all getting dinner first with our dates, so my plan was to take it before dinner, be and a nice relaxed mode, then a couple hours later, start drinking for the pre-game.

So my questions are simple:
-Will taking it before dinner have pretty minimal impact with the alcohol I'll be drinking a couple hours late (Let's say I take the pill at 5:30, I won't start drinking until like... 8ish)
-If I didn't take it before dinner and just chose to take it before drinking? How would that react? Would it be best for me to take it X amount of minutes of hours before drinking?
-Thoughts on taking one before dinner AND before drinking. At least some amount.
-Should I maybe just split it in half and take 0.25 mg?

I'm sorry, this is a really long post and is kind of just here to serve my own personal gain. I'm just looking out for myself. As you can tell, I don't really dabble in this kind of stuff (I smoke a good amount of weed, am prescribed to adderall and Xanax, but that's it)

So any help would be appreciated.

Oh, and how would Adderall mix? Would it help my confidence? What would it do? I'm prescribed 10 mg non XR and 20 mg XR.

Any advice would be appreciated.
 
if you're not going to be here long then at least get yourself acquainted with the forums rules. this question belongs in the basic drug discussion forum.

just because there's more traffic in OD doesn't mean post here.

you'd also be doing yourself the favour if you were to research these drugs if you're taking them on a daily basis. bluelight can be a good place to seek out personal experiences (through searching) and asking any questions you've got along the way. bluelight shouldn't be used as your primary place of research.
 
Trust me, I've researched Xanax plenty. But I really haven't been able to find much. Obviously the internet searches I do will advise me against mixing, but still, I feel like this is a good secondary resource at least. My logic is that I'll probably be able to find more people with experience on the matter over than anywhere else.

But again, apologies, I'm sorry if I pissed anyone off. I know I'm coming across as a newbie loser outsider.
 
Although xanax has a short half-life, it tends to linger in your system into the night when you are drinking. I have taken some at say.... 2pm, and then drank later that night (9pm) thinking nothing of it until I woke up the next day wondering how I spent half the night.

If you take any xanax, break it in half and take the .25. I would say skip the xanax all together, and just drink a couple of light beers before you go out to dinner.
 
i would keep benzo use and alcohol use separate, until you have a tolerance for both.....

interestingly enough they have some what of a cross tolerance....
 
Tommyboy723 said:
Although xanax has a short half-life, it tends to linger in your system into the night when you are drinking. I have taken some at say.... 2pm, and then drank later that night (9pm) thinking nothing of it until I woke up the next day wondering how I spent half the night.

If you take any xanax, break it in half and take the .25. I would say skip the xanax all together, and just drink a couple of light beers before you go out to dinner.
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Seconding the advice to use alcohol as your pre-dinner relaxant, especially if you're planning on drinking a lot. If you haven't used alcohol and Xanax before, this isn't a situation in which you want to find yourself doing fucked up shit you don't remember because you had a benzo blackout.

I like the stimulant and alcohol combination personally, but it can be really annoying for the people you're with if you get to the point of not being able to shut the fuck up and the come down can be a bit nasty if you overdo the stims.
 
just in regards to my prior advice....

when i had crazy tolerances to both, i would drink a bottle, and pop like 10mg xanax......

and i would hardly even be fucked up.....
 
xanax and alcohol have been a recipe for disaster the times i have done it in the past,complete memory loss!

be careful and have fun.
 
As someone else said, I wouldn't recommend choosing this night as your first to try mixing Xanax and booze. Some can handle it......many (especially me) cannot, and suffer a total blackout. Then the next day all you have is an empty wallet, some busted knuckles (or black eye), a bunch of pissed off friends, and a Xanax slide show of the night before. You can wake up in jail too....did that once. Lol
 
I can only go by my past expierience. Three weeks ago a mate of mine has Xanax and gave me one. Washed it down with a beer, followed by 3 scotch and cokes (roughly standard measures). Basically, enough to get me lightly tipsy. About 40 minutes into it i became really relaxed and laughed a lot, however, about an hour and a half into it, all i wanted to do was sleep, basically to the point where i could of slept on fire, and it still wouldn't of woken me (bear in mind, i've been a suffering insomniac for the past two years).

While it doesn't really answer your question, i'm hoping that it would have given mabey even a basic insight as to what happens when you mix alcohol and xanax
 
Judging from all the trip reports I've read about this combination, it sounds like a great way to wake up with a felony the next day. YMMV.
 
I gotta say when mixing alcohol and benzos its a gamble. You really have to find the sweet spot. My advice is to take the xanax first and wait till it kicks in fully. They drink beer not hard alcohol....VERY SLOWLY i might add. If you have some self control you can really get alot out of this combo and have a fun night, if you don't.....pssh expect to wake up in a police station or a dumpster. Me personally I like to take 2.5mgs about 45 minutes before drinkin and after about 3-5 beers Im feelin real chill and still in control. Really less is more in this situation.
 
I've drinking plenty of striaght alcohol and xanax mixed together and haven't got into blackout mode, even though i have no benzo tolerance... I think it has a lot to do with how much food you have in your stomach.. For instance, tonight I took 5mgs of xanax (spread out over a couple hours, and about 6-7 shots worth of alcohol in "gin & tonics" and am still awake and not that fucked up... but last night i ate 2mg alprazolam on an empty stomach and one shot of whiskey and was out for the count... its really werid, i dunno if it has to do with the food in your stomach or what but that is what i expect (seeing that I drank and took the xanax on a somewhat full stomach). and I've noticed through-out the years that when you take xanax bars after eating, it will diminish the effects of the xanax by A LOT!

Also if you smoke cigarettes while your on Xanax that too can decrease the effects of the Xanax as tobacco makes the Xanax less strong/ leave your body quicker...
 
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