^Diclazepam is not like phenazepam. Nothing is. Phenazepam is one the most dangerous substances in circulation and seems like it was designed to cause pure chaos. It's like an evil spell ( a hex) that you would cast upon an enemy, and watch as they slowly lose the plot and start doing bizarre shit without even knowign what they're doing.
To the OP: Here's my experience with diclaz*. It is quite potent. Some vendors claimed that 1mg is equipotent to 10mg of diazepam (Valium) and that seems about spot on in my experience. It is a 'heavy' benzo, which is to say you feel that it's affected you. Body is heavy, mind is slower, anxiety is lessened. However, I do not like it because I find it's one of the benzos which dulls my mind. It removes anxiety, but it removes most everyhting else too. You become numb to stimuli, and thus just feel kind of bored and listless. It takes a good hour or so to really get going, so don't re-dose until you've waited a solid two hours. It lasts a long time. It leaves you with a groggy feeling the next day, and may also leave you feeling depressed and/or emotionally blunted for a day or two after dosing.
I am scripted diazepam (Valium), and to me there is not much similarity between DIAZ and DICLAZ. In fact, DICLAZ feels like a crude, heavy sedation with a lot of brain fog much more like first generation anti-histamines (ie. doxylamine) than benzos.
*Standard dislaimer applies: This is MY experience, yours may differ. I have a fairly high tolerance to benzos and have tried around eight different types (and by tried I mean I abused every one of them, so I know them pretty well).
To StigmaShadow: don't judge all RC benzos against phenazepam, basically that is the worst benzo I've ever tried, and I would seriously consider nominating it for one of the most dangerous drugs available. I'm not talking about dangerous from a toxicity point of view, I'm talking about the fact that it's EXTREMELY easy to fuck yourself up on phenaz. Let me twist that: It's extremely hard NOT to fuck yourself up on phenaz. When you look at that drug's profile, it's easy to see why there are so many horror stories. It's almost like it was designed to cause havoc.
Consider this about phenazepam:
-it's a very potent, multifaceted benzo with anti-convulsant properties amongst many other actions (anything with anti-convulsant action has the potential to mess with your head very seriously)
-most people come across it in powder form sold by vendors (I think Russia may sell it at chemists in pill form, not sure) and is active at 500micrograms. It is powerfully active at 2mg, and anything over that is an almost guaranteed train wreck for people who have little to no benzo tolerance. Most people who use milligram scales are faced with at least a 2mg margin of error. Forget ever getting an entirely accurate 1mg dose on a standard ($30 - $100) scale, let alone half a milligram.
-it carries huge risk of causing extended anterograde amnesia (total memory black outs which can last days in extreme cases). During this time, people will not be just lying unconscious, they will often try to just go about their lives as usual, even going to work, because they cannot feel how affected they are and/or they don't care. Arguments, car accidents, theft, and dangerous impulsive behaviours are frequently committed by people heavily under the influence of phenaz, and will generally have NO recollection whatsover when they come back to their senses.
-and - this is the single most deadly thing that makes it my contender for most dangerous benzo ever: it has an insanely long onset period. It takes up to three hours for the effects to reveal themselves. Depending on a number of variables, peak effects can take as long as five hours to manifest. Many (most?) benzos have a rather rapid onset and you can feel them starting to work. Take a moderate to large dose of clonazepam, and you feel wobbly, drunk, uncoordinated within half an hour to an hour. Take a decent dose of alprazolam and you're feeling it in less than half an hour.
But phenaz comes on sooooooo slow that you don't even realise how strong it is. It creeps in under teh radar, affecting your coordination, judgement, pesonality, but you don't even notice because the changes have slowly taken place over the course of hours.
On top of that, the half life is so long, that if you dose two days in a row, you're stacking doses. Three days in a row, and the shit is building up into ever higher concentrations. So even teh most careful user of phenaz can be tricked by it.
Lastly, it has the worst withdrawals I've ever experienced in my life.
Sorry for off-topic. Just thought it's worth restating the dangers of phenaz every now and then so people know to stay away.
Pyrazolam, etizolam, and flybromazepam are all great RC benzos. However, all benzos are addictive and need to be treated seriously.