Some of these mixtures I am reading about are quite ridiculous. My first etizolam was several years back when I ran out of anxiolytics on a trip through Europe and was prescribed Bayer's PASADEN 1mg tds in, I think, Italy. Could have been Austria. I found it somewhat effective but a lot less than what I was used to - 2.5mg lorazepam qds!
Recently it is not the Euro Rx brands that have been getting sold in the UK but Intas Etilaam and Consort Etizest, 0,5 and 1mg tablets, of which the Consort is far better. It is an extremely expensive thienodiazepine, the Etizest being ten times the cost of the same company's 10mg diazepam, DIAZECO. Once you get into it, you will notice that etizolam is a very 'nice' diazepine, which, if I cut right back on the lorazepam, is definitely a far more pleasant feeling, so it doesn't surprise me that it is growing in popularity. That, and the fact that you do not require Rx in UK for etizolam.
The only moan I have about it, being very useful to have around when your other prescription anxiolytics run out, is that the profits made on it are massive, selling at some twelve to fifteen times pharmacy prices.
I would recommend it to anybody who has a benzophobic doctor. Even better is the also OTC true benzo flubromazepam, which displays all the properties of the other fluorinated benzodiazepines such as the common flunitrazepam, fludiazepam etc.