Street benzos are unpredictable in content and in potency and are causing people to be hospitalised in the UK and in some cases to die. There are concerns that benzodiazepines have been used in sex crimes, where a victim’s drink is spiked with a benzodiazepine, for example flunitrazepam (Rohypnol), making them very drowsy or knocking them out so they’re either unaware of, or unable to, prevent a sexual assault.
People going through these withdrawal symptoms might experience fits. People who use a lot of benzodiazepines can experience bad withdrawal symptoms, which can include tremors, nausea, vomiting, headaches, anxiety, panic attacks and depression. This means that using any combination of these types of drugs with or without alcohol increases the risk of overdose and death. The drugs that do this include benzodiazepines, heroin and other opioids, pregabalin and gabapentin. Alcohol and some drugs depress the central nervous system, which affects your breathing. It is dangerous to take benzodiazepines with alcohol and/or other drugs. Here’s what benzodiazepines can do to you: It can also be used along with other medications to help manage seizures. It is commonly used to treat a range of conditions. The tablets currently causing concern and harm are known as and/or marked with ‘DAN 5620’ (on one side) and ‘10’ (on the other), ‘T-20’, ‘TEM 20’, ‘Bensedin’ and ‘MSJ’.Īll of this means that people who use benzodiazepines will often be taking a much more potent and more dangerous drug than they think they are, or the tablet’s markings might suggest. Diazepam, first marketed as Valium, is a medicine of the benzodiazepine family that acts as an anxiolytic. Instead they might contain other dangerous benzodiazepines, their analogues or other chemicals. The tablets are usually sold as diazepam (Valium) or alprazolam (Xanax) but don’t often contain any of the drug they are sold as. They often come in blister packs, which can make them look legitimate and safe but they are not.
The benzodiazepines (and other drugs) in illicit or fake products and their dose vary between samples. They come as tablets, capsules or injections and come in a wide variety of colours.Ĭommonly available street benzos include alprazolam (Xanax), flunitrazepam (Rohypnol), diazepam (Valium), temazepam and phenazepam.įlubromazolam and etizolam are newer benzodiazepine analogues which are chemically very similar to benzodiazepines and can be dangerously high in potency.īenzodiazepines can be prescribed medicines, which may have been transferred away from the person who was prescribed them, or illicit or fake products.
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