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When I first read this article in the Miami Herald about severe standardized test anxiety, I thought about a lot of the students I work with who share stories of their nervousness on the Saturday morning of the SAT or ACT. But, as I read on to the bottom of the article and saw that a professor of Psychology was encouraging a route that could very well result in the one-time use of a drug like Xanax on test-day, I had a "What you talkin' about, Willis" moment.
I can't believe that it would ever be justifiable to treat an otherwise healthy, well-adjusted student with an anti-anxiety drug simply in order to get that student through at test. Such a student should address the anxiety first before going down the medication route, if for no other reason, than because there will surely be high-stakes exams in college too, and will the Xanax be dusted off for those occasions as well? What a horrible precedent and message to send to a student.
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