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Xanax (alprazolam) is already legal with a prescription. It is frequently prescribed for insomnia and other sleep disorders. But patients often sell some of their pills on the black market, and now drug cartels are manufacturing counterfeit Xanax pills which replace the active ingredient with fentanyl. Xanax itself has some pretty severe side effects so there would be a lot of resistance to making it available OTC.