{"id":25429,"date":"2025-04-06T09:00:47","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T09:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=25429"},"modified":"2025-04-06T09:25:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T09:25:29","slug":"after-the-white-lotus-lorazepam-lives-on-in-memes-and-merch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=25429","title":{"rendered":"After \u201cThe White Lotus,\u201d Lorazepam Lives On in Memes and Merch"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cThe White Lotus\u201d Season 3 may be ending, but the medication that has become synonymous with it has found a new life in memes and merchandise.<\/p>\n

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Etsy has been flooded with hats and candles asking the question: \u201cHas Anyone Seen My Lorazepam?\u201d Social media is rife with videos of people enunciating \u201clorazepam\u201d in a faux Southern drawl. Lorazepam even made a cameo on a recent episode of \u201cSaturday Night Live,\u201d when the actress Chloe Fineman raucously shouted the word during a sketch.<\/p>\n

As anyone even loosely familiar with Season 3 of \u201cThe White Lotus\u201d may know, this sudden tsunami of references to a prescription medication used to treat anxiety is not a sign of mass desperation. Rather, it\u2019s a manifestation of an unceasing fan obsession with Victoria Ratliff, a character on the HBO TV show, the current season of which ends on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Played by Parker Posey, Victoria is a wealthy North Carolina woman on vacation at a wellness resort in Thailand, who, despite the idyllic setting, regularly expresses a need for her lorazepam, a drug known for being tough to quit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A massage? It could make her \u201cvery stressed out\u201d and \u201cclaustrophobic,\u201d Victoria says. The lorazepam helps her \u201cto really relax,\u201d she tells a masseuse.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A party on a yacht? \u201cCertain social situations make me anxious,\u201d Victoria drawls at her eldest son, Saxon.<\/p>\n

Her daughter Piper\u2019s decision to make a major life change? \u201cI don\u2019t even have my lorazepam,\u201d a distraught Victoria declares after her bottle goes missing. \u201cI\u2019m going to have to drink myself to sleep.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe White Lotus\u201d Season 3 may be ending, but the medication that has become synonymous with it has found a new life in memes and merchandise.Etsy has been flooded with hats and candles asking the question: \u201cHas Anyone Seen My Lorazepam?\u201d Social media is rife with videos of people enunciating \u201clorazepam\u201d in a faux Southern drawl. Lorazepam even made a cameo on a recent episode of \u201cSaturday Night Live,\u201d when the actress Chloe Fineman raucously shouted the word during a sketch.As anyone even loosely familiar with Season 3 of \u201cThe White Lotus\u201d may know, this sudden tsunami of references to a prescription medication used to treat anxiety is not a sign of mass desperation. Rather, it\u2019s a manifestation of an unceasing fan obsession with Victoria Ratliff, a character on the HBO TV show, the current season of which ends on Sunday.Played by Parker Posey, Victoria is a wealthy North Carolina woman on vacation at a wellness resort in Thailand, who, despite the idyllic setting, regularly expresses a need for her lorazepam, a drug known for being tough to quit.A massage? It could make her \u201cvery stressed out\u201d and \u201cclaustrophobic,\u201d Victoria says. The lorazepam helps her \u201cto really relax,\u201d she tells a masseuse.A party on a yacht? \u201cCertain social situations make me anxious,\u201d Victoria drawls at her eldest son, Saxon.Her daughter Piper\u2019s decision to make a major life change? \u201cI don\u2019t even have my lorazepam,\u201d a distraught Victoria declares after her bottle goes missing. \u201cI\u2019m going to have to drink myself to sleep.\u201dWe 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":25431,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25429","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\/25429","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=25429"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25432,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25429\/revisions\/25432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}