{"id":23835,"date":"2025-03-12T15:00:56","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T16:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=23835"},"modified":"2025-03-12T16:29:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T16:29:42","slug":"what-is-lorazepam-the-drug-from-the-white-lotus-carries-real-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=23835","title":{"rendered":"What Is Lorazepam? The Drug From \u2018The White Lotus\u2019 Carries Real Risks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Prescription drugs like lorazepam \u2014 used to treat anxiety, panic attacks and sleep disorders \u2014 play a role in popular TV shows like \u2018The White Lotus\u2019 and \u2018The Pitt.\u2019<\/p>\n

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Victoria Ratliff, the wealthy financier\u2019s wife on season 3 of HBO\u2019s \u201cThe White Lotus<\/a>,\u201d has a problem: She keeps popping pills.<\/p>\n

And her drug of choice, the anti-anxiety medication lorazepam, has left her a little loopy.<\/p>\n

In the show, which follows guests vacationing at a fictional resort, Victoria pairs her medication with wine, which leads her to nod off at the dinner table. Sometimes she slurs her words.<\/p>\n

When she notices that her pill supply is mysteriously dwindling, she asks her children if they\u2019re stealing them.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t have enough lorazepam to get through one week at a wellness spa?\u201d her daughter, Piper, asks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe White Lotus\u201d is not the only show to recently feature these drugs. The new Max series \u201cThe Pitt<\/a>,\u201d which takes place in an emergency department, includes a story line about a benzodiazepine called Librium.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t a case of Hollywood taking dramatic liberties. Benzodiazepines such as lorzepam and chlordiazepoxide are notorious for having the potential to be highly addictive. They may also come with difficult \u2014 sometimes fatal \u2014 withdrawal symptoms.<\/p>\n

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Prescription drugs like lorazepam \u2014 used to treat anxiety, panic attacks and sleep disorders \u2014 play a role in popular TV shows like \u2018The White Lotus\u2019 and \u2018The Pitt.\u2019Victoria Ratliff, the wealthy financier\u2019s wife on season 3 of HBO\u2019s \u201cThe White Lotus,\u201d has a problem: She keeps popping pills.And her drug of choice, the anti-anxiety medication lorazepam, has left her a little loopy.In the show, which follows guests vacationing at a fictional resort, Victoria pairs her medication with wine, which leads her to nod off at the dinner table. Sometimes she slurs her words.When she notices that her pill supply is mysteriously dwindling, she asks her children if they\u2019re stealing them.\u201cYou don\u2019t have enough lorazepam to get through one week at a wellness spa?\u201d her daughter, Piper, asks.\u201cThe White Lotus\u201d is not the only show to recently feature these drugs. The new Max series \u201cThe Pitt,\u201d which takes place in an emergency department, includes a story line about a benzodiazepine called Librium.This isn\u2019t a case of Hollywood taking dramatic liberties. Benzodiazepines such as lorzepam and chlordiazepoxide are notorious for having the potential to be highly addictive. They may also come with difficult \u2014 sometimes fatal \u2014 withdrawal symptoms.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23837,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23835"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23838,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23835\/revisions\/23838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}