The thing is marketed as a calming / sleep-promoting / mood enhancer chill pill but in reality it acts like alcohol but without any alcohol-specific "good" to it.
You don't feel it's effects come up, you take your pill and go about your day wondering when it's going to kick in all the while you have lost touch with reality, it messes your brain in such a way that you are not even aware of how messed up you are.
You feel sober, you act sober, people you interact with can't tell that you took anything if not for the fact that you are taking some bizarre decisions.
You go around signing contracts, making phone calls, interacting with society just as you would otherwise except now the part of your brain that makes you think "maybe this isn't such a good idea" is shut off, so you end up sayings things and doing things you would not do otherwise and as the effects start to wane, it leaves you exhausted and all you want to do is to just fall in sleep which is more dangerous than you'd think because you can fall asleep without realizing.
One moment you wake up and find yourself driving 180 on a highway, or in a park, or in a bush, or on somebody else's property with no idea how you ended up there, what you did or said, completely unaware of the chain of events that occurred which led to your current situation wondering why people give you the death stare and why your spouse refuses to talk to you, also, time magically skipped a day or more.
The last thing you remember is it was Sunday morning and you were in you kitchen cutting up a cucumber and suddenly it's 12PM on Monday and you're 1300 euros in debt to the bank.
Screw alprazolam.
And I'm pissed off at my doctor for insisting of prescribing me alprazolam instead of diazepam as the hospital suggested.