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Phenazepam

Phenazepam
Aka: Bonsai, Bonsai supersleep, Fenazepam.

The Drug

The Effects

The Risks

The Law

The Drug
Overview Appearance Use
Overview

What is phenazepam? Phenazepam is a powerful benzodiazepine, which are drugs referred to as minor tranquillisers because they relieve tension and anxiety, and help the user feel calm and relaxed. Phenazepam has been reported as approximately five times stronger than Valium (another well known tranquilliser), so it is easy to take too much and overdose. Phenazepam is not used in the UK as a medicine, but it is used in

Russia to treat epilepsy and neurological disorders. Phenazepam is currently being sold as a powder or as a liquid and marketed as a ‘legal high’ or as fake Valium.

The key effects and risks of phenazepam include:

  • A sedative effect, relieving tension and anxiety, and making the user feel calm and relaxed, and
  • A loss of coordination, dizziness and drowsiness.
  • Phenazepam is a depressant so mixing it with other depressant drugs like heroin, other tranquillisers or alcohol, can lead to an accidental overdose and possibly death.
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Appearance

What does phenazepam look like?

  • Phenazepam is mainly sold either as a fine white powder or as a liquid.
  • Phenazepam costs between £18 and £20 for one gram of powder and £12.50 for a 20ml bottle of liquid phenazepam.
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Use

How is phenazepam taken?

Phenazepam can be snorted or swallowed. Like other benzodiazepines, phenazepam can be used as a chill out drug. Some people may use it to help them to come down off acid, speed or ecstasy after a big night.

But phenazepam is very strong  and so it is easy to take too much and overdose. Some users have ended up in hospital after taking too much.

The Effects

What are the effects of phenazepam?

Phenazepam is a powerful benzodiazepine.

  • It provides a sedative effect, relieving tension and anxiety, and making the user feel calm and relaxed.
  • It can also cause a loss of coordination, dizziness and drowsiness.
  • Big doses can make a user forgetful and send them to sleep or potentially put them into a coma.
The Risks
What are the risks? Impurities Getting hooked
What are the risks?

What are the risks of phenazepam?

Taking phenazepam does involve risks. Here’s what it could do to you:

  • Phenazepam is a powerful benzodiazepine and it is easy to take too much and overdose.
  • Phenazepam is a depressant so mixing it with other depressant drugs like heroin, other tranquillisers or alcohol, can lead to an accidental overdose and possibly death.
  • It takes a couple of hours for the effects of phenazepam to kick in. This means that there is a risk that people will re-dose before they feel the effects and increase their risk of overdosing.
  • Phenazepam is used to make fake Valium (diazepam). People have taken what they thought was a normal Valium dose, but is in fact a high dose of phenazepam, and have ended up in hospital.

Phenazepam and alcohol

You increase the risks to yourself if you combine phenazepam and alcohol - phenazepam is a depressant and if taken with other depressant drugs like alcohol, it can lead to an accidental overdose and possibly death.

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Impurities

Medical phenazepam will be pure, but there is no way of knowing whether the phenazepam you are buying/taking is pure or not.

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Getting hooked

Can you get addicted to phenazepam?

Benzodiazepines like phenazepam can cause serious psychological and physical addiction.

Because of the development of tolerance , some users have to keep increasing their dose to get the same hit or to just try and feel normal again.

If you have used phenazepam for a long period of time you may experience substantial withdrawal symptoms when you stop, including anxiety, insomnia and tremors; and as for all minor tranquillisers, these problems could last for a long time.

The Law

Phenazepam and the law

The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, who advise the Government on drugs, has recommended that the importation of phenazepam is banned and that phenazepam becomes a Class C drug. The government banned the importation of phenazepam on  22 July 2011 and it's expected to become a Class C drug in 2012. As a Class C drug Phenazepam would be illegal to have for yourself, to give away or sell.

Did you know?

  • Like drinking and driving, driving while high is illegal – and you may still be unfit to drive the day after using phenazepam. You can get a heavy fine, be disqualified from driving or even go to prison.

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