{"id":606236,"date":"2026-04-15T18:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T18:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/606236\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T18:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T18:20:08","slug":"bottles-of-anxiety-medication-xanax-recalled-nationwide-nbc-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/606236\/","title":{"rendered":"Bottles of anxiety medication Xanax recalled nationwide \u2013 NBC Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bottles of a popular medication used to treat anxiety and panic disorders are being recalled nationwide, according to a report from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accessdata.fda.gov\/scripts\/ires\/index.cfm?Product=219233\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.accessdata.fda.gov\/scripts\/ires\/index.cfm?Product=219233\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Food and Drug Administration<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One lot of Xanax, one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC5846112\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC5846112\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">most widely prescribed benzodiazepines<\/a>, was recalled March 17 by pharmaceutical company Viatris because the drug failed to meet dissolution specifications. According to the FDA, the voluntary recall was listed as a &#8220;Class II&#8221; recall, which means temporary, adverse health consequences are possible.<\/p>\n<p>According to health officials, drugs that don&#8217;t meet &#8220;dissolution specifications&#8221; could mean the pills aren&#8217;t as effective, or that they don&#8217;t release the correct dosage. <\/p>\n<p>Lot number 8177156 was recalled, with bottles containing 60, 3mg extended-release tablets. The expiration date for the bottles was Feb. 28, 2027, the FDA said.<\/p>\n<p>The pills were distributed nationwide between Aug. 27, 2024, and May 29, 2025, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pharmacy.ca.gov\/about\/recall_alerts\/031826_viatris.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.pharmacy.ca.gov\/about\/recall_alerts\/031826_viatris.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">the California State Board of Pharmacy<\/a> said. It wasn&#8217;t immediately clear how many bottles were recalled.<\/p>\n<p>Vitaris Inc. did not immediately respond to NBC 5&#8217;s request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bottles of a popular medication used to treat anxiety and panic disorders are being recalled nationwide, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,84,393,394,37689],"class_list":["post-606236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-recalls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}