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Goodbye Triazolam....(for all intents and purposes, it is gone from .ca)

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One of my favourite benzos when it came to insomnia (i have problems falling asleep only) is going away from Canada it seems. I download the RAMQ's (my province's medicine insurance) list of available medication every month from their site in pdf form. It is no longer in the Benzodiazepines chart, since September 2013. There was no more brand name Halcion already and only one generic company made it available in my province, apotex, known as APO-TRIAZO.

Now if one looks at Health Canada's drug database here : webprod5.hc-sc.gc.ca/dpd-bdpp/index-eng.jsp

There is one Active entry for Triazolam. Made by AA Pharms Inc. I never heard or saw any generics of any medication made by that company. It's easy to tell which generics company makes any medication here, it will go like PMS-Oxycodone, Ratio-Codeine, Teva-Hydroxyzine, CO-Quetiapine etc. So this beats me, this company surely does not do business in my province.

And notice the schedule it is under : "Targeted (CDSA IV)", I never saw anything being under this schedule, but I bet that site was saying the same for Placidyl in 2006 and all the good barbs like Seconal in 2004.

They keep nannying us and removing very useful compounds. Xanax is the only other triazolo benzo we have and I don't know about any other Canadian's thoughts here, but aren't benzos more difficult to get than opiates generally?

Everytime I ask for just 12-15 Mogadons (Nitrazepam) 10mg my doctor makes this long face, even if he knows it never caused him problems and it's not like there's a DEA here. Only Doctors who get really watched are dentists, since they usually only script strong stuff when they go with narcotics (Dilaudid in particular) and there ain't no good reason for dentists to give people opis for a long time, except in special maxilliofacial cases (how it all got started with me...).

Nothing else to say...this is just such a bummer. I didn't have any triaz since 2008 certainly, I have scripts right now sure, valium and xanax, in pretty low quantities...they don't have the glamour of Triazolam.

If they do this to Temazepam (unlikely, it doesnt seem to be very well known here) and Dalmane i'm gonna get pissed off!

Dalmane being a partial benzo agonist is one key element in my future plan to ween myself off benzos slowly.
 
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