Asian Benzos (Xanax, Valium and Rivotril)

With your nice images and brand name meds, I thought this would be an easy post to reply to.

But not so!

Let's start with what we know.

The blue pill imprinted Roche 10 is 10 mg Valium (diazepam) licensed by Roche and made by various manufacturers all over the world. All foreign (non-US) Valium looks the same (except some made in India):

In the US, our Valium is very distinctive - the pill has a cut-out V. Very pretty - and very expensive even after 40 years on the market:

The Roche 2 pill (with a dot before and after the 2) is another well-documented foreign tablet. It's 2 mg clonazepam and is called Rivotril or Iktorivil in other countries. In the US it's called Klonopin and the pill looks entirely different. Here is an image of the foreign Rivotril that matches your picture:

Unfortunately we don't have an image onsite of the US Klonopin. Maybe someday. But it's similar to the Valium with a pretty cut-out 'K' instead of 'V'. Again, very expensive. So we seldom see pictures taken by nonprofessional photographers.

Okay, the Xanax one has me stumped. I'm sure it's Xanax 1 mg (alprazolam) but can't document it. In the US, Xanax is imprintd Xanax 1.0 like your pill, and it's blue.

I checked Australia, New Zealand and Taiwan. All Xanax 1 mg are imprinted with Upjohn 90. Here is the image:

All foreign descriptions accompanying the Upjohn Xanax state the color is lavender or lilac.

So the Xanax is a problem right now. Also compounding the problem is the name. Xanax is called Xanor or Tafil in other countries too. And there may be other names and imprints. But, so far, this is all I can find.

It's very possible the Philippines market the same blue Xanax 1.0 pill we are familiar with but I can't confirm this.

As far as the color of the pills, I wouldn't worry about them. As noted with the Xanax, the color differs from country to country.

I just got an order for 10mg valiums. they are supposed to be made by Roche Pharma.The lady was not very fluent in English or pretended to be so. now why am i here??

#1).I am originally from nORTH OF iNDIA AND I can claim that 5mg of valium there by Roche "seemed" much more potemt than these 10 mg ones from Germany.

#2).Of course, American,European and Indian pill appearances are diverse and I agree with the post above. Indian Valium is pure white

3).Surprising thing is I pop lilke 40mg of German Valium everyday. I admit sleeping to the point of irritating the spouse with loud snores but I do not feel that much "calm" in my mind as I used to in India with 5 or 10. 10 used to mellow me down. It could be becuase of severe personal problems or maybe they mixed some powder in the pill.

4).I ADMIT bROMAZEPAM again gotten grom Germany is working much better than Val. I know they say 6mg of Bromazep(as they call it there) is equivalent to 10mg of Roche Valium.

Peace!!!

Rups

(edited by TeamPharmer)

Yes, they are correct. Lavender is pretty much purple!

I know for a fact they come from asia!