Firstly I must admonish the poster who is boasting of profiting by some of the worst profiteering I have seen for a long time. Yes, Etizest can cost that amount but look at the blister and you will see MRP Rs.67 per ten tablets. The same company's DIAZECO 10mg diazepam costs Rs.11.00 per ten, so ETIZOLAM is six+ times the cost of diazepam of half the strength.
Bearing in mind that alprazolam is a very fast acting BZD and etizolam the opposite, your customers, if they pay your crazy pricing, will think they have been well and truly ripped off. Until the next morning, as the reaction of those who buy such things on the street with a comparison to alprazolam will inevitably redose and exceed a sensible dose. Remember it is prescribed for very serious and chronic anxiety and panic disorders. And doctors are very careful to warn all patients who are prescribed etizolam (and in India that means the more well off) of its effect compared with any anxiolytic they may have been using previously.
Sublingually? All brands of ETIZOLAM that I know of, except Intas ETILAAM, are film coated, so sublingual administration would take like forever.
As for the effects described by the two posters above, one of whom is claiming a daily 7-8mg intake, which is MASSIVE when you consider strength is equivalent to lorazepam (i.e. 1mg lorazepam = 10mg diazepam, my prescription is 4 x 2.5mg tabs daily, equivalence therefore 100mg diazepam. Add the 8mg clonazepam and my intake is 260mg diazepam equivalent but there are sound clinical reasons for that prescription) the effect of Etizolam is of a very long duration, & redosing because of the long time it takes to kick in, about 4 hours to peak plasma level, is responsible, as with Fenazepam,ma much maligned drug only because of the absolute idiots who eyeball powder of extremely high potency and eschew pharmaceutical brands which are precisely dosed (they are available by Valenta in 0.5mg, 1mg and 2.5mg and their major indication is as an anticonvulsant, but are also used as prophylaxis of severe panic disorders) which are NOT difficult to find. Even in the Russian pharmacies you are most likely to find it, it is still an OTC drug, the most potent drug available over the counter anywhere, being around three times the potency of etizolam, slightly HIGHER than alprazolam and Clonazepam - The same warning I feel I MUST give to anybody considering trying out the triazolo-analogues of Flubromazepam and Clonazepam; potency of these is far higher than their parents. flubromazolam and clonazolam aka clonitrazolam are incredibly strong and I have seen pure powders being sold on RC sites. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO USE unless properly homogenised and dosed, 500mcg of clonazolam being as potent as 2mg clonazepam making it the strongest benzo now being sold.
Yes, it is an excellent drug with a profile very similar to clonazepam, but only for those who know what they are doing, certainly not recreational experimentation with the 98.5%+ powder being sold online. Clonitrazolam/clonazolam has a much more anxiolytic action as well, so in that respect is a more all-round drug - anticonvulsant, prophylactic and anxiolytic - than clonazepam.
For God's sake be careful now that chemists have turned their attention to the tweaking of benzodiazepines. Everything they are producing at the moment excepting the paradoxical chlordiazepam (aka pyrazolam) is FAR stronger than any BZD which is marketed legally. The strongest legal diazepine is the thienodiazepine brotizolam, branded Lendormin, which is a sleep inducer in 250mcg strength only, that dosage being more than enough to knock anyone out faster than any barbiturate, but with half life of <1 hour. It is twice the potency of TRIAZOLAM (HALCION) which is the only marketed BENZOdiazepine which has a similar effect and half life. And those of you who have used this famous blue 'UPJOHN 17' tablet will know just how potent it is. It's abuse potential is also very high as it gives warm fuzzies comparable to Nimetazepam, hence some people use in dosages exceeding a milligram during the day for recreation, very nice yes, but Triazolam is the most addictive of all BZDs and withdrawals can take place after as little as a week's usage at recommended dose, one reason doctors rarely prescribe in quantities of more than seven or ten tablets.
But seriously folks, the new triazolo and fluorinated BZDs and thienos are just too potent to play with - use only in precise dosage for sound clinical reasons.
I bought 250mg in early December and from the quantity left I'd say it will last to April some time.