Talk:Phenazepam

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I've put a pharma-stub tag on this. The article is rather short. I guess that this is a fairly recent drug, as I've never heard of it before. I couldn't find it when I searched British National Formulary.

From web searches, it seems that this drug is more popular in the East - many of the pages I come up with are in Russian or other non-latin-alphabet languages. Also, I draw a blank when trying my favourite English-language sources.

--Publunch 18:02, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Hi there! Phenazepam was introduced in the mid 80`s in Soviet Union and became very popular for treatment of different neurological diseases. It`s chemical structure closely resembles bromazepam, except that pyridine ring is replaced by o-chlorophenyl one.

You are quite right, it is chemically very close to bromazepam, though subjectively, mg for mg, it is a lot stronger. It has been around for well over 20 years now, and is quite popular as an anxiolytic in the former Eastern Bloc. It produces less of a euphoriant effect than bromazepam, though more in the way of sedation. As for Legal Status, neither the UK nor US Laws on controlled substances mention Phenazepam. Therefore we would be probably correct if we were to assert that this substance is not illegal in any way in the UK or US. I am not surprised that it can not be found in the British National Formulary - of the nearly 40 benzodiazepines, only ten are included in that publication. The rest have been deleted over the past fifteen years or so, bromazepam being the latest in 2003. British doctors have the least amount of benzodiazepines that they are able to prescribe of all Western countries, which is why diazepam, considered old-fashioned and not used much any more in the rest of the world, is the #1 choice benzo for UK doctors. Even alprazolam is being phased out. Gauchoamigo —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gauchoamigo (talk • contribs) 00:59, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

I edited the IUPAC Name since the old one was not appropriate--ChemSpiderMan (talk) 01:56, 20 December 2007 (UTC)