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What are panic attacks?

Panic attacks may be symptoms of an anxiety disorder. These attacks are a serious health problem in the U.S. At least 20% of adult Americans, or about 60 million people, will suffer from panic attacks at some point in their lives. About 1.7% of adult Americans, or about 3 million people, will have full-blown panic disorder at some time in their lives, twice as often for women than men. The peak age at which people have their first panic attack (onset) is 15-19 years. Another fact about panic is that this symptom is strikingly different from other types of anxiety; panic attacks are so very sudden and often unexpected, appear to be unprovoked, and are often disabling.

Childhood panic disorder facts include that about 0.7% of children suffer from panic disorder or generalized anxiety disorder and that although panic is found to occur twice as often in women compared to men, boys and girls tend to experience this disorder a...

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PATIENT INFORMATION

To assure safe and effective use of BuSpar (buspirone) , the following information and instructions should be given to patients:

Inform your physician about any medications, prescription or non-prescription, alcohol, or drugs that you are now taking or plan to take during your treatment with BuSpar (buspirone) .
Inform your physician if you are pregnant, or if you are planning to become pregnant, or if you become pregnant while you are taking BuSpar (buspirone) .
Inform your physician if you are breast-feeding an infant.
Until you experience how this medication affects you, do not drive a car or operate potentially dangerous machinery.
You should take BuSpar (buspirone hydrochloride) consistently, either always with or always without food.
During your treatment with BuSpar (buspirone) , avoid drinking large amounts of grapefruit juice.

BuSpar®
(buspirone HCl, USP)

Patient Instruction Sheet

HOW TO USE:

BuSpar®
(buspirone HCl, USP)

15 mg and 30 mg Tablets in convenient DIVIDOSE® tablet form

Response to buspirone varies among individuals. Your physician may find it necessary to adjust your dosage to obtain the proper response.

This DIVIDOSE tablet design makes dosage adjustments easy. Each tablet is scored and can be broken accurately to provide any of the following dosages.

If your doctor prescribed the 30 mg tablet:	If your doctor prescribed the 15 mg tablet:
30 mg (the entire tablet)	15 mg (the entire tablet)
20 mg (two thirds of a tablet)	10 mg (two thirds of a tablet)
10 mg (one third of a tablet)	5 mg (one third of a tablet)
15 mg (one half of a tablet)	7.5 mg (one half of a tablet)
#822 on 15 mg and 824 on 30 mg tablet

To break a DIVIDOSE tablet accurately and easily, hold the tablet between your thumbs and index fingers close to the appropriate tablet score (groove) as shown in the photo.

Then, with the tablet score facing you, apply pressure and snap the tablet segments apart (segments breaking incorrectly should not be used).