Etizolam Equivalency Chart

This conversion tool estimates a reasonable equipotent dose between two benzodiazepines.

Etizolam equivalency chart. It possesses amnesic anxiolytic anticonvulsant hypnotic sedative and skeletal muscle. Equivalent doses may be inaccurate for larger quantities of benzos with different effect profiles. Although etizolam has no accepted medical use in the united states where it is federally considered an unregulated research chemical it is regularly utilized in japan italy and india as a prescription anxiolytic.

Editors clarke insitute of psychiatry toronto hogrefe huber. Unlike opioid equipotent dosing benzodiazepine equivalence is much less evidence based and poorly described in the literature in fact most benzodiazepine equivalence estimates are based on expert opinion uncited tables in published documents and clinical practice. 1mg of etizolam would treat the anxiety too but it would also make my body more relaxed and i would feel it more despite the charts that saying that etizolam is half as potent.

So as for equivalencies it really depends on what effects you are looking for. The below tables contain a sample list of benzodiazepines and benzodiazepine analogs that are commonly prescribed with their basic pharmacological characteristics such as half life and equivalent doses to other benzodiazepines also listed along with their trade names and primary uses the elimination half life is how long it takes for half of the drug to be eliminated by the body. Nrha drug newsletter april 1985 and benzodiazepines.

Clinical handbook of psychotropic drugs 4th revised edition bezchlibnyk butler et al. Etizolam marketed under many brand names is a thienodiazepine derivative which is a benzodiazepine analog. Benzodiazepines chart that shows equivalency.

Please compare the dosages below to see weighted dosage ranges. Please compare the dosages below to see weighted dosage ranges. But according to that chart 60mg of temazepam what im prescribed to sleep isn t even equivalent to one xanax bar.

This benzodiazepine equivalence table is based on the extensive research and clinical experience of professor c heather ashton dm frcp emeritus professor of clinical psychopharmacology at the university of newcastle upon tyne england sources. This calculator should be used as a reference for oral benzodiazepine conversions. The etizolam molecule differs from a benzodiazepine in that the benzene ring has been replaced by a thiophene ring and triazole ring has been fused making the drug a thienotriazolodiazepine.

As helpful as this table is we need some in depth info on speed of onset peak plasma levels and half life as well. Benzodiazepine equivalence table benzodiazepine equivalency table revised april 2007. Etizolam and xanax are interventions that may be utilized for the treatment of acute episodes of anxiety panic disorder and or generalized anxiety disorder.