Dose - Benzodiazepine Equivalent Doses

[TinfoilxTouch]

Everyone should be aware that the table listed was intended for those trying to switch drugs to taper off them. I find it nowhere near accurate for the therapeutic effects.

20mg diazepam is far more effective for me than 4mg xanax would be, over the course of the day. It’s really hard to compare these things in a chart when the half-lives are so different. I guess if you gave someone 10mg Valium and then .5mg Xanax and asked them how they felt on each after 30 minutes, then it might come out as a wash. I dislike this take because it doesn’t take into account that certain benzos are plasma bound and accumulate in your system while others don’t’, thus making them more potent over time. I also don’t like it because the half-life times listed don’t seem anywhere near the therapeutic range of each drug (I’ve been RX’ed many of them). I won’t get into the obscure ones, but I’ve never had a dose of Xanax last past 6 hours, and Lorazepam can easily last 10+ hours.