…what concerned about this stuff and that goes for diazepam as well, is the long half-life time….60 hours(that means it will follow you way into next week when you use it as a comedownie! on a sunday, this is important for drivers and students, your ability to learn your study things is near to zero; see note)…..I love to fool around with diazepam(it works as an upper for me)….but the long halflife time does that I seldom have the time for it….
Cognitive effects
The short-term use of benzodiazepines adversely affects multiple areas of cognition; most notably, it interferes with the formation and consolidation of memories of new material and may induce complete anterograde amnesia.[55] However, researchers hold contrary opinions regarding the effects of long-term administration. One view is that many of the short-term effects continue into the long-term and may even worsen, and are not resolved after quitting benzodiazepines. Another view maintains that cognitive deficits in chronic benzodiazepine users occur only for a short period after the dose, or that the anxiety disorders is the cause of these deficits. While the definitive studies are lacking, the former view recently received support from a meta-analysis of 13 small studies.[64][65] This meta-analysis found that long-term use of benzodiazepines was associated with moderate to large adverse effects on all areas of cognition, with visuospatial memory being the most commonly detected impairment. Some of the other impairments reported were decreased IQ, visiomotor coordination, information processing, verbal learning and concentration. The authors of the meta-analysis[64] and a later reviewer[65] noted that the applicability of this meta-analysis is limited because the subjects were taken mostly from withdrawal clinics, the coexisting drug, alcohol use and psychiatric disorders were not defined, and several of the included studies conducted the cognitive measurements during the withdrawal period.
after reading this, should make students or young people to reconcider their benzo use….its a typical example that nothing comes with a slight catch to it….there are too many unanswered Q’s due to the cognitive effects in both short- and long term-usage of benzos that it can be concidered as russian roullette to start do it before your exams are done and graduate papers are in hand….
….in short; benzos do NOT make you intelligent……
