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- From: jdymond@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Jason Dymond)
- Newsgroups: alt.drugs
- Subject: Re: Rohypnol was Dosed drink
- Date: 2 Nov 1993 01:29:19 GMT
- Message-ID: <2b4d5f$6ki@uniwa.uwa.edu.au>
-
- Gary Hughes - VMS Development (hughes@one900.enet.dec.com) wrote:
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- : >I'm sorry I can't help you out, but I am curious about Rohypnol too. In an
-
- : From Merck, Rohypnol is a brand name (Roche) for flunitrazepam, a fluorine
- : substituted analog of nitrazepam. It is a benzodiazepine, a family of
- : sedative/hypnotics that includes valium and it's friends. It is scheduled in
- : the US (1985), but since I could not find any references in PDR or USPDI it may
- : not be in common use in the US (my copies of PDR and USPDI are a few years old,
- : it may be a recent addition to the pharmacopeia).
-
- : gary
-
- Rohypnol was/is one of the drugs of choice on the gay scene here. It is
- a benzodiazapene, but has the rather unusual effect of making its users
- become very agressive (A few people I used to know used it quite heavily
- several years ago). Interestingly, other friends who have used various
- other benzo's (prescribed) have sometimes had bad experiences with
- release of agression/anger.
-
- One friend was prescribed Mogadon, but found that it made her very
- restless and agressive. Her doctor switched her to valium, which was
- fine.
-
- Does anyone have any information from medical literature about these
- sort of "paradoxical reactions to benzodiazapenes ?
-
- Jason
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