Alprazolam interactions

Taking Alprazolam with other medicines that make you drowsy or slow your breathing can cause dangerous, even fatal, side effects. Ask your doctor before using an opioid, sleeping pill, muscle relaxer, prescription cough medicine, or medicine for depression or seizures.

Some products that may interact with this drug include kava, and sodium oxybate. Other drugs may affect the removal of alprazolam from your body, which may affect how alprazolam works. Examples: antidepressants (such as fluoxetine, fluvoxamine, nefazodone), azole antifungals (such as itraconazole, ketoconazole), cimetidine, HIV medications (delavirdine, protease inhibitors such as indinavir), macrolide antibiotics (erythromycin) ), rifamycins (rifabutin), medicines to treat seizures (phenytoin).