Lorazepam Drug Misuse Question?
Question by DAViDXx: Lorazepam drug misuse question?
Hello,
I’m doing an assignment for summer school on the misuse of prescription drugs. The one that i chose to focus on is called Lorazepam.
My questions are:
1- What is Lorazepam used for?
2- How do people take this drug recreationally? (ie: snorting, crushing, and putting in liquid, ect)
3- What kind of “high” does this drug produce?
4- What are the symptoms of withdrawal?
5- What kind of treatment options are available?
Any help is greatly appreciated!
Best answer:
Answer by Toss that Yeyo and Run
Lorazepam is used for anxiety and panic attacks, insomnia, seizures, body tremors, and other things.
You get the best high either by swallowing the pills on a bare empty stomach with 12 or so ounces of water, or less commonly by injecting the drug into your vein. Intervenous ativan abuse is rare because it is not possible to make a safe solution using water and a spoon the way you can with other drugs like herion, meth, cocaine, XTC, ect. You have to buy a prepared intravenous solution which are hard to come by. Snorting the crushed powder is done but the people who are doing it are fooling themselves because the drug cannot be absorbed in your nasal passage the way cocaine is. Only the little bit that makes its way down to your stomach will get absorbed so you are wasting about 40% of the drug.
Lorazepam produces a euphoric feeling. All worry disappears and you just feel good. It can cause you to be so high you don’t know you are high and you keep taking more and more until you blackout. It is best to mix the drug with other drugs to enhance the high. I personally would mix it with dextromethorphan syrup to get a really good high–totally impaired ability to think, remember, drive a car, walk a straight line, etc.
Withdrawals cause you to feel physically ill, have insomnia, profuse sweating, and seizures. Seizures are a serious medical problem and people have died from having withdrawal induced seizures.
It is very hard to get people off this drug because of the physically addictive nature. You have to lower your dose very slowly over time and sometimes doctors will switch you to valium because the two drugs are so similar valium will stop withdrawals and it is easier to kick. Treatment varies; you can do a twelve step program like narcotics anonymous, or a program like SmartRecovery, or any other popular method of staying off any other drug. I kicked by telling my doctor what I was doing with the pills she gave me and I asked her to not prescribe it anymore. I went off cold turkey and had a seizure, but it didn’t kill me.
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