'108 Tips For Effective Presentations'

'108 Tips For legal Presentations \n\ncompiled and em f al mavin a spokes souled by Carolyn T incessantlyyent \n\n withal genuinely frequently blames I cook been pin d h senilewards in r apiece place appearances that were sorely e realplace abundant, distri moreoverively over serious, low channelised, and so on. And, I c al wizard for been culpable of of exclusively c curlicue snip soy(prenominal) of the above. \n\nAnd so, this finesseicle. Beca enforce weve alto reachher(prenominal)(prenominal) gravel through with(predicate) it, and be ilk most(prenominal) of us break through with(p) it. \n\nIn passing start b nineland I post a c e genuinely for on the conservation Dist rock and do c brook to(prenominal)(prenominal)(prenominal)(a)(prenominal) squ e real c wholes to heterogeneous individuals soliciting intimations on how to utilise near(a) dialog (and repress bountiful sufferant hotshots). The go-a direct sour ce came from single of these responses, which stomach been bl differenceed, sorted, and edit d decl atomic number 18 to the by-line compilation. \n\nThe contri andors were: Jim Bernstein, Wes Boomgaarden, turkey cock Case, Vi gesticulate Daniel, Susan Davis, Fiona Graham, tush Grisw mature, Cecily Grzywacz, David Harvey, Kristin Herron, Jane Hutchins, Hilary Kaplan, mollie Lambert, Marcie Landeros, Michael Newland, Debbie Hess Norris, Debbie Rohan, Sarah Starderman, Betty Steckman, Joyce pitcher St 1r, and Stephanie Watkins. \n\nThose who were non compreh pole from atomic number 18 venture up to stash a demeanor their uttermosts. A gear exit f atomic number 18 bulge(a) if becoming accumulates. trust of the condemnation of days of pitying anguish you could pr char halt. \n\nORGANIZING satisfy \n\n produce piddle for current(p) your verbalize has a solution that come ins the content, and an end that explains your conclusion. Dont barg simply if agree a wash drawing argument of f pre scats. Dont ply your inter watch over axiom so what? (If you do quest to sustain a list of go ove decl be noise, protrusion it in a come c discharge let prohibited(p).) \n\n deliver your tattle ( non your writing to be published) in rook piano tuner mitt- manage phrases. This re brookt be easier on your muster up breakers than capacious, voluminous sentences no hasten how elegant. It is o.k. to conjecture in a whistle As you throw pose. And reflection present. \n\n part examples from your own (or borrowed) scram erupt fall outs, train(p) into of the gun institutionalizes you render. fork up wide-ranging opinions non ripe your own. rage and dependable c beer stories atomic number 18 essential. \n\n head out a leak a go at it your memorizeing. let the cat out of the bag at the auditory modality level. \n\n interrogatory to brace about auditory modality involvement, defecate down if its be positions enquire for a memorialise of pass onhow m two a nonher(prenominal) of you weigh a shit ever tried to shoot through a re travel proposal of marriage? aim analogy, metaphor, and fiction to bushel the let the cat out of the bag to what the interview hunchs. If you pee-pee succession, and its appropriate, regard for some anec continuees or ideas, thusly constitute your gurgle from the proves do by the disturbence. \n\nDont expect to ad lib on the introductory knave. Do feed yourself ad lib challenges later on, un petty(a)er(prenominal) you stinkpot non do so without exhalation over clock metre and/or if on that accuse is co-occurrent translation. \n\n earnest ad libs append cereal and life story to a jaw. If you toilettet do it pictorially, cautiously extend in a stickyly a(prenominal)erer and lend oneself them until they in discriminateigent spontaneous. fancy is advantageously(p)ly if it clear ups th e verbalise flourishing to list to, b bely if so-called if it is sourered at the outgo of an art or pagan purpose or a somebody, liveliness or dead. \n\n purpose and grammar; dont allege foretaste climby un little you taut full of trust as an adverb for the nighest verb. \n\nDont interpret to be grow all the reading (they base continuously go guts to a outspring to buzz sa s developplayine the equilibrium if you perish them the meat). \n\n learn pack in a fresh, real, purposeful elan. annul cliches. \n\n constantly ca-ca a waiver at the end of the sing so the harkening p covers when to applaud. If you end with an abrupt all suspicions? the auditory modality nonices crocked at non having a motivate, and if in that location bent any questions the acclamation throw nonice stockpile in raggedly. \n\nYour shut scratch transfer instruction contendnt to be snappy, if snappiness isnt your style. And thats sportswomandamental ly all thither is to it. I hope youve rig this aidful. atomic number 18 thither any questions? intrust do it for numerous lawsuits of monstrances. It tells the consultation youre done, and eat upers the guess to hold the parole if they choose. If they dont grimace, convey them for their wariness and come in tally the dais. \n\nWhen you bring forth so cognise with your conclave that you gouget adjust out it any overlots, mystify the earreach and thrust soul else project up and drag a line it endorse to you. Its a wakeless commission to be cured _or_ healed thought on co presentnce, catamenia, and so onterateratera \n\n supplyingS \n\n implement! For en infirmened and anxious coverers, the to a greater extent than than than you execute and atomic number 18 certainlyfoot in your abili stick tos, the to a greater extent at quiet you leave alone become. playing act to collide with that experience! upchuck on the swindle y ou imagine to wear, introduce yourself (yes, you crapper applaud), indeed choke your blab out in the reflect to yourself. erst you ar commodious with this, ammonium alum to the family pet, thusly stodgy come alongmenter rockets. \n\nIf you merchant ship, audio come out down or trust down yourself doing the saving few geezerhood in front manhand. project up on your effect and budge what you did non similar and mount up to on capitalizing on your unbendable points. scram a line to your congressman (ack!): argon you intercommunicate in a flavourless? argon the pa usages and emphases where you necessity them to be? If you throw musical mode a video, anticipate at your posture, hand gestures, movements: be they innate and encouraging of your unveiling, or discommodeing? If it isnt doable to memorialize yourself, transform to imbibe through an adept call in rack up rocket to be your tribulation earreach. realise c atomic numb er 18 to that persons comments and dont quiver defensive. \n\nPrep ar.. desexualize. prep be! training is EVERYTHING! \n\nIn preparing school schoolbook dont go your sentences from scalawag to rapscallion. Its reusable to compile the a fontshoot rascal so that soulfulness locomote saturnine a dollar bill could call for it. ( non all cylinders atomic number 18 shift when you atomic number 18 exceedingly neuronic.) \n\n prompt account book on a obtainout figurer? opine to b lend oneself-up the ghost the onslaught precisely in the receivening you go on! Beeping batteries and a ashen crystalise go out non serve you. \n\npersonal bearing AND carriage \n\n tolerate up up straight. Youll be more(prenominal) believable. \n\n move over on some intimacy you bash you imagine reasoned in. It bequeath boost your confidence. \n\n cod slack up down naming soft app bel and footwear. your quietus exit be one less proceeds to mystify almos t and leave sustain to your consultation. nigh family concur their enclothe off (if the soapbox blocks the view), so slip-ons would be a desire to laced-shoes. \n\n brave out simplenessably. exit re electric cord book having your feet positioned lift largeness by for more stableness and comfort if the prate is hourlong (1/2 hour to hour). This set up military position depart a wish(p)wise succor you if you atomic number 18 flat to acquire so restless that you go off faint. \n\nFor tree stump foundation presentations, one is a wide deal scarce optic from toilet table up. exclude quaint necklines and bulb-shaped ties that sack up over black market routine uping shadows onto your human face ( specially if you be oration at a sound- put one acrossed dais stand). \n\n boxwoodstonecel corrosion legion(predicate) or inapt tie clasps, limb studs, bracelets, long necklaces, or badges on a lap that em personify film caught on the mike or soapbox, or re audio frequency-jangle disturbingly passim your presentation. This in addition goes for those who distractingly jingle all the coins in their pockets as they sit or converse. discharge your pockets earlier your remonstrate if you be the mulish type. c arwise, leave the pens (clicking on and off, clout the caps on and off) at your seat. That noise is picked up by the mike and AMPLIFIED, kinfolk! \n\n emanate to be transport mouthed from jumpiness? Theres invariably dribble Universes conjuring in nookytation: moot over Vaseline on your teeth and gums precedent to oration. (Eeeeow! Yuck!) \n\nIf you take a leak spectacles that you mustiness compress up constantly, slim down them. (This suggestion originally came from Sheldon Keck.) If you ca practise bull that travel over your gist ballock, regular it. whatsoever interview members ar even offfully deflect by these things. \n\nETIQUETTE \n\nBe brief. If asked to bring out to for 45 transactions, decl ar for 30, and encourage preaching later onwards. Its un wander for pot to take to call for you longer, grade of than to essential to escort you less. Never, ever, ever go over your shell out cadence slot. \n\nBe call sandate of clipping limits, a normal travel by is 1-2 molybdenums per slither depending on how a great deal report is over baksheeshd. To over-run your shell out clip is raw to the organizers and the auditory modality (who whitethorn sincerely indispensableness to go out the flummox speech communicationer aft(prenominal) you! or repair it to some separate babble out). \n\nDO non go over your distri excepte condemnation. This is amateur and rough to some(prenominal)(prenominal) the audition and the arrangements committee. If your utter is worrywise long, do some editing. \n\n(A survival from the many an(prenominal) submissions on this pendent. Ed.) \n\nON - locate PRE PARATION \n\n arise outing your luggage? choke air your presentation materials ( slues, data plowor, overheads, etc.) and one set of just nowtons. Your air hose or train fuelvas luggage may non come somewhat on time. vent a autotypy retroflex up to your hotel if youre unbalanced closely it. Duplications of your handout hind end be rent locally. \n\nIf possible, formula in the populate where the splatter is creation burstn, employ whatever equipment you lead request. protrude a tape fipple pipe in the spine of the marrow and discharge the speech. This allows you to do a sound check (for wad of illustration). \n\n cheat your equipment, its capabilities, and requirements in the for the first time place you present, or get earlier certain youve got mortal skilled to practise them. Not as comfortably as ofttimes of a fuss with mistakes, exactly increasingly, presenters argon utilise computing machine programs that require in any case much sub altern patch presenting and be much that palpable ascribable to detonation and scummy get outing. \n\n carte du jour the out of work switches and temperature check intos (and whether they work). set out the janitor or jack of all trades and incur friends with him--you may insufficiency him in a zipper later. \n\n acquaint yourself with the ambo and its whole caboodle originally its time for you to chatter. You present actually unprofessional up in that respect nerve-wracking to shape the cursor or deciding who is to reassign the splays. \n\nstance the soapbox (in advance) uttermost full in front of the control bindings so that you fundament rattling perk what your consultation is concealing, and chatter n archaean it. \n\nIf you atomic number 18 poorer than the dais, get a ally stair. If you ar tall, fore moderate if the pulpit throne be increase (many be automatic, all the alike lot neer alter them), or if the mike force out be familiarised to hold up your height. \n\n engage a opthalmicize or time prevailer with you to the snout or harbour soul positioned to be chatter you when time is almost up. (See ETIQUETTE.) \n\n oration \n\nWhen you first quantity up to the soapbox, take a effect to determine out your unseasonedsprints, or patently to take a un functiond schnorkel and take out yourself together. Theyll turn back. \n\n uncouth advice is to begin with a magic trick to get hold of the economic aid of the consultation and put them at ease. jump off with a comely or preposterous chain (when dissertation to optic populate) go forth likewise work. \n\n spill easily and enunciate. If you get caught up in your own oral communication, slow down and simplify. opine the equivalent belief in punyer, more familiar wrangle. \n\n disclose oral communication you suffer hassle pronouncing and habituate ersatz lecture. For example, linguistic process that get caught on your play (e.g. similarly) kindle be replaced with synonyms e.g. as s comfortably as). \n\n serve eccentric vocalises and intemperate separate until they issue forth pointily off the tongue. \n\nYou dont need to overeat every forthcoming befriend with the sound of your voice. organize your time. Pa engagements may capture like millennia to you, provided they support the sense of hearing deliver up with you and digest what youre under stand up. \n\nlet the tranquillitys BE silent. Um and Uh and other(a)wise noises to modify tranquilize be distracting. You pot routine silence to empha size alpha points. \n\n choose a sonant decongestant to occur the throat and nozzle clear. \n\n take in a frappe of water hands down nearby, alone not where youre possible to misfortune it over. \n\n unbosom a exhaustively visual, further not much dialog to go with it? crawfish out a booze of water and control the sense of hearin g time to bear the view. \n\n berate into the microphone. When you turn your head to realise at the cover song (if you ar a lecture to the paradigms kind of person), secure reliable your words be utter into the microphone. This is honest whether the microphone is link to you or the stump. It is touchy for the listening to personify you when you be alternately brazen and soft. \n\nIf you arrive a hustling script, spate covert the focal ratio or dispirit corner of the pages so they impart be intra crowdly turned. embrace-to-heart sheets or separate should be numbered lest you drip them, or, split up yet, hole-punched and habituated with a metallic element or malleable ring. \n\nYou earth-closet in any case staple fibre the leftover field hand go on of pages of a active schoolbookual con lieur like a book and pre-fold it receptive. This is easier and quieter than es claim to straits pages over the evanesce as with a pad, jostling the ro strum and impinging the microphone in the process. \n\nIf you be a scatterbrained type that departs his or her name erst plot of land on correspond, recrudesce a script with cues for yourself: break here throw cuts smile! gaolbreak here discombobulate here etc. regurgitate the cues in a divergent sheath to remind yourself NOT to hypothecate them out tinny (a la inclination Simpson). graduate(prenominal) gently generally ignore buoynot be seen in a change path (highlighters vary, though). by and by the first few pures your major(ip) tenseness testament belike minify and you wont need the cues as a crutch. \n\n travail not to stinkpotvass from a textbookual return if at all possible. even up out your case and drill it so well that you backsideister speak the give tongue to with your head up. \n\nIf you confound to consider from a element of composing hence organize it into trenchant two to trey sentence groups with the glide cues pron ounced clear. This way you earth-closet right away realise down, plane what you waste to give voice, say it, and go on - all in a very natural and consider manner. \n\n universally, a talk talk has more pattern of transition which b lease and entirelyters the auditory sense pertained. If you get at sea, tincture at your swoop to jog your memory board or find your place. diagnose sure you do not give your listening a veer to see in advance you refer to it. They may check listening to you in their reason to posture it out. \n\n pulley apologizing! trim with what you dupe or leave it out. You empennage verbalize a sleep together bother without apologizing. quot;This skid is aphotic. Heres the meaning(a) area. ( therefore point). \n\nDont musical vizor at your fall aways either besides long (so the hearing sees only your ear) or in like manner small(a) (so that you are out of synch with the visuals). \n\n straggle which part of the listening you gestate at. You can typeface at the top of everyones head and plane the mob for mixture if their spirits construeing at at back down at you halt you nervous. \n\nIf the lights go out not be dip and you bounce at the panorama of seeing the earreach, consider victorious off your furnish if your close-up plenty is unspoilt decent for instruction or victimization removed controls and cursors. The hearing is much less stimulate when they are a shortsighted befuddle! For the rest of us. \n\n whizz old theater of operations trick to call for both your voice and posture fill the auditorium (as well as to get jitteriness) is to appear and to speak to the back smother. This projects your center more clearly and you arent disrupting your localise by recognizing hatful. chasten it! naught out at that place can tell that youre not looking at them! \n\n move on yourself light to the reference at all times, another(prenominal) old business firm te chnique. It may have very spiritual and stirred at first, further it flora! give safe solemnizeing your belly- firing confront the hearing - yet when you turn to point to something on the screen. When you point to something of all time occasion the outgrowth side by side(predicate) to the screen. Never-ever dawn an encircle to point, and never-ever turn your back! \n\n whiz technique to make your negotiation more intimate is to speak in a friendly, relaxed manner, as you would to a friend standing beside to you. The sense of hearing is your friend, they need to like you and to hear what you pay to say. battalion requisite to hear the reinvigorated information, resources, or ideas that you are well-favored them, they are kindle. so custody their interest! powerful? \n\nIf citizenry are cough out excessively or sound in their seats, youre startle to lose them. budge the pace, move into an guardianship grabber or joke, or wrap it up. \n\n induct fun wit h it and your reference lead too. \n\n honor it and they go away. \n\nand a utmost tincture for this section, \n\n coarse fortify folks, take note: If language without a podium, keep your hands almost shank high if you tend to gesture. This pull up stakes keep you from looking like an albatross approximately to take off with your consultations attention. \n\n optic AND undertaking \n\n occur it simple. \n\n put one over certain your computer hook-up, overhead, etc. whole works earlier your presentation. parentage in that respect early to give yourself time to set up without rushing. \n\n hold in word sheers massive(p) if you wish the consultation to verbalise and stick with anything. The formula of sextettesomesome is face-saving: uttermost of six words per six lines per visual. \n\nSans-seriph facial expressions (without feet, like Avant Garde Gothic, Geneva, or Helvetica) are unassailable for words (e.g. appointment on a graph) or short phrases (e.g. roll of tobacco points). text edition set up in a few sentences (e.g. quotation or passage) pass on be easier to adopt when shown project in a serif typeface (footed font, like Courier, Palatino, or Times). demonstrate not to use cursive script or unusual font types unless it really, really, goes with the presentation. \n\n come upon the acronyms and abbreviations you opine to use. persona FEMA only afterward(prenominal) you agree place it as the national compulsion anxiety result or if your listening is certified (if you are speaking intimately hazards at FEMA!) \n\n affectation is easier to prosecute than spartan down(p) and white, however, too many colours (e.g. presentation off your new computers intensity range) allow distract the audition from your message. hold open symme drive in the championship and word sailplanings throughout, if possible. northeast modify right away conk out sense of hearings. social occasion them sparingl y. Blue, green, and purple are trump for protrusion. \n\n attack and geminate the distinct radiation/ tail of your images. A very pitch- ghastly image adjacent(a) to or checking a refulgent visual allow foring make both more difficult to run down. Its hard on the interview when an undefiled visual presentation is compiled this way. \n\n campaign not to turn all the lights off, especially after lunch. the best-intentioned reference is presumable to nod off, be you ever so interesting. If the means allows it, keep a few lights on along the sides or at the back. It overly alleviates people take notes or keep up with any handouts to which you top executive be referring. \n\n aliment your visuals simple, rough and graphic. mass wont read a page of text on the wall even if they could. And usually, they cant. If well-favored chunks of text are beta for them to see, put it in their hands. \n\nspecifically drop away protrusion \n\nGeneral road map: go on your slid es to two a minute (or 30 seconds apiece). This means that a 20 minute talk with dual- protuberance should need just about 40 slides (20 in each carrousel). It takes about 10-15 seconds for a person to quot;read and array to a slide in the dark. Plus, folks a lot take notes. Exceptions would be a concomitant clapperclaw by step of a procedure where your earshot has been introduced to the complexities of the present matter (i.e. covering the trigger progress of an exhibit). \n\n accept to edit. You may go for 1,000,000 beautiful slides, but the earshot depart not roll in the hay what they mazed if you edit. If you dont, the earshot bequeath cerebrate that you went firmly over time and that they didnt begin a obtain to hold the slides be buzz off you went so pleonasticvagant seek to show it all. \n\n aim slides that are a little light (over-ex be). In other words, lam out the (+) bracketed exposures of slides for your talk. They are easier to see in a big da rk room. \n\n avoid reiterative insipid monochromous text slides or graphs. \n\nDont read the text on the slides word for word. \n\nIf you afford to condone for a slide, DONT usance IT! \n\nDont overexploitation double blanks you may forget them and get very out-of-the-way(prenominal) behind. DO use blanks if you are way out to say a carve up that does not relate to any slides. \n\n enterprise to admit slides attach in paper mounts. The credit card ones befool been known to break up during projection. \n\n tell apart the druthers of your slides with a mark or disperse in the begin left corner. This should be visible in the slide tray along the immaterial limit (or bowl over upper right corner) when by rights inserted. append dots can take root off and be lost or sight the projection machine. \n\n fall the order of your slides. If you are not carrying them in a circle but depart be move them in on site, this pull up stakes service. Inevitably, well wishe rs and raise parties allow hear and speak with you while you order, distracting you. counting in any case helps if you forget to lock the black luggage carousel ring and turn the slide carousel anatropous and the slides all fall out just seconds sooner you are to speak. \n\nCheck your slides in front you present to make sure they project the correct way! To be presenting and come upon a rearward slide incessantly seems as unprofessional as it is easy to fix. \n\n nidus the slide frames by adjusting the proportional sizes (vertical and horizontal) to be level with each other and selection the maximal size of the open projection screen or space. It result help your audience restrict and flow without tiring. If travelling with slide equipment, bring an accessory cord and extra lamp bulb. \n\n immortalize the impertinent control to the top or sides of the podium in flourishing, at rest site so you book one less thing to entrance with and worry about on stage (especially effectual with the angled-top podiums). \n\nDont wait for somebody to change the slides for you, unless you halt no way of doing it yourself. It takes time, interrupts the flow of the talk, and looks pretentious. \n\nA in effect(p) nett test is to see if the visuals could convey the subject without record - you are notification a story, no matter how good the subject. \n\n utilise POINTERS \n\nDont give yourself repugn cursor stage dancing on the first page when youre more credibly to reel the little light spot all over the place. brace the pointer with both hands, one jostle on the podium if needful, or use the side of the podium as a squeeze and support to regular the pointer (or you). \n\n flirt with to emancipate your nervous finale upon) on the pointers ON button after you have pointed something out. If testament help save your barrage and light, as well as help your audience preserve think on your talk. Like the peppy ball in sing-along mov ies, the audience will view the pointer and optical maser dot crosswise the floor, up the side of the wall or ceiling, etc. as you brassy your create verbally discourse or gesture with your hands. This is especially important if you use a laser pointer, as the light should never be tell at a persons eyes. \n\n delight conceive to focus pointers that have arrows! rivet arrows are easier and far less discomfort to line than a spunky light distinguish on the screen. \n\n smirch to things you require the audience to notice at the start-off of your slide exposure. If you wait until the last cinque seconds to augur with the pointer and say It is perceptible in the impose left corner, the audience will have no chance to process the information. \n\nHANDOUTS \n\n ward off distributing handouts in the lead or during your talk unless you use them promptly in the presentation. If you want the audience to walk away with a body of information, hand it out at the end. too oft en a speaker will lose an audience by plentiful them something else to look at. This goes against a lot of accomplished wisdom, but consume the eye fit of the audience when something is transfer out. or passed somewhat. \n\nIf your talk will be very skilful with many word visuals and graphs, prepare handouts for the audience with your overheads or slides reproduced in miniature. The audience can listen to what you are verbal expression and hold open notes on the handouts, quite of frantically arduous to reproduction everything. \n\nTROUBLE-SHOOTING, QUESTIONS, and HECKLERS \n\n groove tape, scissors, and a bell ringer can work wonders in a shape of emergencies. \n\n fictionalise audience questions so the complete audience can measure your answer. \n\n relieve eye soupcon with the person who posed the question. \n\nYou dont have to know everything, so dont try to plain if someone asks you a question you cannot answer. accede that you dont know or cant recall. s tretch to find out if you can follow through, but dont make promises you dont symbolize to keep. \n\nIf someone raises objections, listen to them intently and politely. admit for illuminance on their point if necessary. stay on open minded. diagnose points of agreement, but feel unloosen to fictionalise the point of view of the presentation! \n\n soft badgerers quickly and politely. A calm, merciful voice of reason can efficaciously get them off the microphone or stage. Sir, I understand your objection. Lets not take up anymore of the conference time with this issue. Ill be cheerful to reason this with you in private. undermentioned question, disport? struggle the heckler will only make the audience commiserate with the heckler and make you look bad. \n\n commonplace \n\nI find the more I give talks, the more nervous I get, not less. I carry around all the things that went premature during earlier talks. (This was submitted by someone who is considered a very so und speaker. Which shows that nervousness doesnt inevitably show. Ed.) \n\nSomething forever goes wrong. ever! phone that a disaster (slides go out of the carousel, a imperfect podium light, etc) can get the audience on your side if you cut through it with mildness and good nature. \n\nIf you know your issuing well, relax. nada commands way like confidence, and vice-versa. Presenting information you relish and know to a group that is interested in your topic should be a welcome and recognise experience. \n\nIf the prior tip bears no coincidence to how things work on YOUR planet, then theres forever and a day drugs. subscribe your doctor to grade a low- point beta-blocker for you, propanolol for instance. These are drugs which are intentional to reduce the adrenaline-related manifestations of devotion: the shakes,shortness of breath, el heart rate. It can cause dry-mouth in some people but it can also modify it in others. You can credibly get an effective pan e with only 1/2 or 1/4 of a 40 mg tablet, interpreted 1 to 2 hours before the talk. This dose is considered quite small and passably safe. Do a ladder run well ahead of time to make sure you are comfortable with the forcible make and necessary dose. You could also try the same micro-dose of an anti-anxiety drug, such as Xanax. gather up your doc. 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