Pharmacology - how long alprazolam can implicate alcohol intoxication

[paperstreet]

Today is new years eve and like many of us, SWIM is going out drinking to celebrate. Last night SWIM took 1.5 mg of alprazolam in order to fall asleep early. The time of alprazolam dosing was approximately 2 am. Sleep occured at 3:30 if this makes any difference. SWIM is not positive but he believes that the half life of alprazolam is approximately 11 or 12 hours, which seems pretty long for such a short acting benzodiazepine... but anyways the point of this is SWIM's concern about any potentiation that may occur during tonight's alcohol consumption.

SWIM does not want to black out and act like to much a fool, so he wants to know whether 1.5 mg of alprazolam consumption (oral) 17 hours previously could potentiate alcohol intoxication. (and to what extent)

paperstreet added 147 Minutes and 40 Seconds later...

It should also be noted that the swimmer who is asking about all of this has very little tolerance to alprazolam and benzodiazepines in general.

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Good thinking in advance, it is good to see someone post an intelligent thread related to harm-reduction