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I've seen the opiate comparison chart. I thought I saw a benzo com,parioson chart on here once but I'm not sure. If I've missed it somewhere could someomr link me to it?

Regards

Hi,

Simply go to www.benzo.org.uk and on the sidebar you will find a link to the table compiled by the world's leading benzo authority, Professor Dr.Heather Ashton, of Newcastle University.

One or two omissions may appear glaring, but the chances are that what you seek will be found there. Without this table I would never have known that both alprazolam and clonazepam, mg for mg, are each 20 times stronger than diazepam; 0,5mg of either is equivalent to 10mg diazepam.

Of course there are other factors which make such tables a little misleading. For instance, subjectively, one would find that 1mg of flunitrazepam had a much greater effect on the CNS than the standard 10mg diaz which these tables all seem to use. And nitrazepam is certainly a lot more effective as a sleeping agent in 5mg dosage than a 10mg diaz. But use them sensibly and you will learn and gain a lot from them. Tolerance is an issue not addressed. I suffer insomnia and must have different prescriptions each 7 days - for instance, this is a Rohypnol week, and next week will be a Mogadon week, etc. The only ones I refuse to contemplate are the 'Z' drugs, which have dreadful side-effects which are not made very clear by the manufacturers. Zolpidem (Stilnoct, Stilnox, and, in the USA, 'Ambien') is particularly bad with hallucinations, tachycardia, and next-day ataxia amongst them. A truly awful, dreadful drug which should perhaps have its licence withdrawn.

Gaucho

"NEVER ingest anything unless you are 100% sure what it is."

MIDAZOLAM is most commonly encountered as tablets of 15mg strength; in Europe Galenika's FLORMIDAL and in many countries Roche's DORMICUM are the dominant brands. Roche also produce a half-strength version at 7.5mg. It is an extremely strong hypnotic benzodiazepine indicated for the relief of chronic insomnia.

I have yet to find an equivalence table which includes this drug, but personal experience makes me believe that it is a much stronger sleeping drug than temazepam, nitrazepam, flunitrazepam, in fact I would probably say it is the strongest sleep aid that I use in my rotations. Certainly i never take the tablet until I am actually tucked up in bed - it appears to me to be extremely fast-acting.

VERSED (sorry, don't know the manufacturer of that particular brand) is, I believe, an IV form of midazolam used almost exclusively in hospital settings ?as a pre-med before anaesthesia/operations.

"NEVER ingest anything unless you are 100% sure what it is."