@phDMT
I don't know where you got the alleged benzodiazepine Clonazepam. I only assume, from a USA Medical Doctor, and the
prescription, was filled at likely a chain, or independent USA pharmacy. With that being said...........................................
I have been off and on benzodiazepines, for 40 years, taking breaks, as long, once, for 7 years uninterrupted, another time,
for 10 years uninterrupted. In the here and now, at least since the year 2006, I take benzodiazepines, and, here in the USA,
I find massive quality control issues, with, these Benzo's from USA pharmacies:
1. Alprazolam (Generic Mylan sucks) just google up and look for many negative comments on Mylan generic Xanax.
2. Clonazepam (Actavis, UDL, Sandoz are "so-so" , while IMHO, Qualitest, UDL, and especially Watson generics are good, the very
best Clonazepam, I directly compare my prescription with, the Roche K Cut, "USA made Klonopin" from Roche Park, in
Nutley, New Jersey 07110 a division of Hoffman la Roche, Inc, of Basil, Switzerland. I switch back and forth this past year, from
Roche, which are very hard now to locate, and are very expensive, with, the generic Actavis, Morristown, New Jersey USA. I
find the 1 mg cut out K Roche are from 40% to 50% stronger. Why? in chemistry language, it is the "Bioavailability" difference!
3. Diazepam (same story) Roche V-Cut fancy 5mg or 10mg brand Valium, from Nutley NJ (Roche Park) are 40 to 50% stronger, than
the much cheaper, USA generic Mylan Diazepam, which in my book are trash, just like Teva diazepam. The "so-so" diazepam in
the USA are, the Roxane, UDL generics, and the best are the Qualitest, and the Watson generic Diazepam. Unfortunately, the price
range of brand, and very hard to find Roche Valium compared to any generic Valium is outrageous. I last compared USA made
V-Cut prescription 10mg blue Valiums in both 2009 and 2010. I last compared phony Roche and real Roche in a Latin country in 2012
If by chance, you are getting your Clonazepam, from anywhere outside the USA, just beware, that Roche and Pfizer products are
the most counterfeited pills IMHO, in the modern world. I have spent a small fortune, on Roche Clonazepam, in Mexico, United
Kingdom, Spain, Pakistan, Philippines, Argentina, Germany, and two countries in Eastern Europe, all known as Roche Rivotril, including
blister packs from South Africa................that..................
were only 1/2 strength (the 2 mg were all very weak, compared to the USA 1 mg Roche Klonopin. Including United Kingdom Roche Rivotril, & UK
produced Auden McKenzie generic Clonazepam 2 mg tablets.
Part of a significant problem, within the UNITED STATES, is the lack of controls, in the generic "bioavailability" of the cheap fillers
and buffers, that may make up only 20% of the medication, but it can have a powerful negative effect, on how the human body
breaks down the medicine, even worse, if one is taking more than one medication, also with cheap generic fillers and buffers. The
USA drug quality has gone downhill in the past 10 years, due to many mergers, with foreign parent pharma firms, such as...
Ranbaxy, and Teva. Other Continents have experienced similar mergers, with parent firms, who built up their business, selling to
3rd world countries, with poor quality control standards. The USA only has quality control on Generic prescription drugs in the
area of "Bioequilvalence" all based on the FDA's dependence on the USA Orange Book ratings, "18 different ratings" Source:
REDBOOK Pharmacy's Fundamental Reference 113th edition 2009. The Bioavailability can vary from 20 to 40% in the USA.
Alprazolam, varies within the USA, just like the above mentioned benzo's, with, again, Mylan being trash. It may have a Orange
Book rating of "AB" (good) for Bioequivalence, but, the Bioavailability sucks. Greenstone and Dava are far higher in USA quality.
The International Operating Pharmacies, from, all the previous countries already cited, all have a high hit ratio, for, low quality
Xanax (Tafil) due to flagrant counterfeiting, by one buying expired meds, that are excellently repackaged, but exposed to very
high heat, or, a deeply cut benzodiazepine, with a overabundance of cheap fillers and buffers, with "not the milligram content of
pill, you, the consumer, is paying for". vs. outright, duds, (a minority) but they do exist, with, only perhaps talcum powder in the
contents, bathtub quality sanitary conditions, and very poor printing presses, or substitute benzo/hypnotics/or OTC rip off meds.
I personally found in one Latin American Country, in 2012, for a pharmacist to sell me 3 different controlled drugs, Pfizer Tafil,
Roche Rivotril, and Sanofi Stilnox that were 100% fake, without a prescription, and two days later, with a M.D and a referral, to
a honest combo pharmacist/owner who spoke English, sell me the real prescription meds, that is how haphazard it is even in the
Western hemisphere, south of the USA border!!!
