wickedly dependence-producing
Alprazolam, Upjohn Inc.’s big hat-throw into the benzodiazepine ring, only Schedule C-IV but wickedly dependence-producing, w/ severe unpleasant abrupt-withdrawal penalties.
Context
The benzo pharmacology named with its trap: alprazolam, a mere Schedule C-IV, yet "wickedly dependence-producing" with "severe unpleasant abrupt-withdrawal penalties" — the low legal schedule masking the physiological hook. The mechanism by which the substance-cage clamps shut, written into the drug's own profile.