1The speed is why these work and also what they cost. Relief that lands within the half hour is the most teachable kind there is, and what it teaches is to reach for it sooner next time.
How fast a drug comes on drives that learning more than how long it hangs around afterwards. Better to name it out loud with someone than leave them to discover it: this is a rescue, and rescues are for the times you truly cannot get through otherwise, not for the ordinary bad evening. Agreeing in advance what counts as one of those times spares everybody the argument later on.
Islamic evidence
truly it is in the remembrance of God that hearts find peace (Quran 13:28). There is another place to take the surge, and it costs nothing to keep returning there.
“those who have faith and whose hearts find peace in the remembrance of God- truly it is in the remembrance of God that hearts find peace”
Qur'an 13:28
Psychological evidence
In a randomised experiment, a week of carrying out health-related safety behaviours left people more anxious about their health rather than less. Precautionary acts aimed at the body appear to feed the alarm they were meant to settle. That study used checking and precautions rather than medication, so applying it to a fast-acting drug is an argument by extension and not something the trial tested.
Olatunji BO, Etzel EN, Tomarken AJ, Ciesielski BG, Deacon B. (2011). Behaviour research and therapy · doi
Review detail
Why it works. Anything that ends discomfort quickly gets reached for again, and reached for earlier.
When not to. Someone already on one regularly should not read this as a reason to stop by themselves.