Ativan

What is Ativan?

Ativan is one of the most popular drugs mainly used to treat anxiety. It was first introduced in 1971 and until this day is used as the main medicament in treating anxiety. Ativan, or in other words – lorazepam, is a psychoactive drug. It has such effects as anxiolytic, amnesic, sedative, hypnotic, anticonvulsant and relaxant and it’s duration time is short to medium. While lorazepam is best known for his anxiolytic effects, it’s not recommended to use Ativan for more than 4 weeks. Lorazepam is addictive and usually tolerance develops if it’s use is prolonged.

Uses of Ativan

Majority of people that take Ativan, take it because they have some anxiety disoreders, but there are a lot of other uses for Ativan. It can be used for short term treatment of insomnia, because the drug has strong hypnotic and sedative effects. Lorazepan is also known as quite good premedication. It’s often given before anaesthetic or unpleasant awake procedures. Other use of Ativan is for terminating seizures, the drug is known to be good anticonvulsant. It’s also used to treat alcohol withdrawal syndrome

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Difference between xanax and ativan

Most of people think, that ativan and xanax are identical drugs. That’s not true. Their compositions are different, they work in different parts of the body, they have different side effects. The only similarity is that they both are used to treat anxiety.

Which is stronger ?

The answer to that is Ativan. 1mg of ativan is equal to 5mg of xanax. So, using Ativan is alo safer than xanax, because simply you are taking less drugs.

Which is more addictive?

According to the studies, xanax is much more addictive than Ativan. Much more people become addicted to xanax, that’s why the recommended use time of xanax is a lot shorter than the use time of Ativan.

Which one effects last longer?

Ativan has longer lasting effects compared to xanax. Xanax duration time is short, while Ativan’s – medium. People with anxiety disorder usually have sleeping disorders, in those cases Ativan is more helpful because it helps to sleep and it lasts quite long.

In conclusion, Ativan is better in all aspects and is inferior to xanax.