its a tranquilliser of a different type to valium, needs to be taken daily for about 10 days before it starts to work, so cant be taken as needed
although heavily promoted and advertised to docs, has a very poor reputation in the anxiety community
several psychs who specialise in anxiety and panic attacks say its almost useless, one says its an overpriced sugar pill, in other words, placebo effect only

may perhaps sometimes make an antidepressant work better though

often promoted as the non addictive alternative to valium, but nowhere near as good as valium
and most of us are much too sensible to allow ourselves to become addicted to any valium type meds as they are so helpful

any doc who insists on buspar listens more to the drug company sales reps than to his patients