A Montgomery County man who sent thousands of drugs through the mail — and passed them off as Xanax — will spend up to four years in state prison.

Charles Dewayne Myers, 28, was sentenced last week following his conviction in May. According to prosecutors, he was involved in a large-scale operation that sold and mailed packages of b romazolam, a synthetic benzodiazepine, to various customers. Though bromazolam acts on the same brain receptors as Xanax, and also has sedative effects, it is not approved for medical use. MORE: Water main break closes Philly's Stout Center for Criminal Justice

It has been increasingly detected in counterfeit benzodiazepine preparations and toxicological samples . The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stresses that , while brom

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