Posted by yxibow on November 6, 2006, at 5:21:54
In reply to Re: Lorazepam occasional use question » clint878, posted by madeline on November 5, 2006, at 16:42:56
> before you cut a pill in half, always talk to your doc or pharmacist.
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> Some medicines are compounded in very specific ways (time release, enteric coated etc...) and cutting the pill could cause all kinds of problems, like causing too much to be released at once or causing the drug to be absorbed in the wrong place.
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> Maddie
You can cut just about any tablet generic or original benzodiazepine in half, quarters, crush it up, they're all evenly distributed agents with prescored lines. Klonopin, Ativan, Xanax, Valium, Tranxene The only exception would probably be the patent extender Xanax XR. Even Serax and Restoril can be probably be divided out of its capsule, most likely -- that's probably an iffy question as to whether it is supposed to be time released (Restoril); I don't believe so.
Basically this applies to all scored round tablets from makers like Watson, Mylan, Teva, etc. Benzodiazepines and beta blockers are the most common.-- Jay
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