Bromazolam Stats & Data

Bromazolam was first synthesized in 1976 as part of benzodiazepine research, representing a structural modification of alprazolam where the chlorine atom is replaced with bromine. Despite its early synthesis, the compound was never developed as a pharmaceutical product or brought to market for medical use. The substance remained largely obscure until it emerged in the designer drug market decades later. In 2016, bromazolam was definitively identified by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) after appearing in Sweden, marking its entry into the novel psychoactive substances landscape. Since then, it has become one of the more prevalent novel benzodiazepines in circulation. In parts of North America, particularly Canada, bromazolam has become intertwined with the illicit opioid supply. Street-level products combining bromazolam with opioids such as heroin or fentanyl analogues have emerged, sometimes referred to colloquially as "benzo-dope." This adulteration pattern has raised significant public health concerns due to the compounded risks of combining central nervous system depressants.

Effects aggregated from 3 experience reports (3 single-substance Erowid)

Each bar is the share of reports mentioning the effect; its whisker, and the band on the rows below, is the 95% interval: where the share could plausibly be with other reports of the same kind.

Too few reports for bars: these effects come from 3 single-substance Erowid reports, and a bar is drawn only from 20 reports or more. With fewer, a percentage cannot tell a common effect from a rare one. Counts are shown instead. Why 20?

Also reported in combinations. In the 1 Bromazolam report where another drug was taken too, 0 mention hospital, emergency services or an overdose, 1 a seizure and 0 psychosis (too few reports for percentages). In the 3 single-substance reports: 0, 0 and 0. These are not in the figures above: they cannot be put down to Bromazolam alone, and a mention is not always something that happened to the writer.

Most common forms and preparations, as a share of the 2 reports that give one

Too few reports for bars: these forms come from 2 reports, and a bar is drawn only from 20 reports or more. With fewer, a percentage cannot tell a common effect from a rare one. Counts are shown instead. Why 20?

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