One of the greatest drugs known to man. They should give it away at the convenience store. Possibly one of the greatest to snort, too: Valium slides down like a sugary pixie stick with little or no pain to the nostril.
Diazepam
Well-documented
Well-documented
Multiple authoritative sources agree on dosing and effects.
- 5 corroborating sources
- 1 ROA with full dose ladder
- duration data present
- 17 combo interactions documented
- PubChem toxicity data
Well-documented
Multiple authoritative sources agree on dosing and effects.
- 5 corroborating sources
- 1 ROA with full dose ladder
- duration data present
- 17 combo interactions documented
- PubChem toxicity data
Aliases: Valium, Zetran, Diastat, Apaurin, Mother's little helper
Summary
Diazepam is a long-acting benzodiazepine with a rapid onset, considered the standard by which other benzodiazepines are compared. Its long elimination half-life and active metabolites result in extended effects that can persist for days. Commonly used for anxiety, panic disorders, alcohol withdrawal, muscle spasms, and seizures.
Dose Information
| ROA | Light | Common | Strong | Heavy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oral | 2.5-5mg | 5-15mg | 15-30mg | 30mg+ |
Light
Common
Strong
Heavy
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Onset, Duration & After-effects
| ROA | Onset | Comeup | Peak | Offset | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oral | 15-60 min | 30-60 min | 1-2 hrs | 2-6 hrs | 4-8 hrs |
| Intravenous | 1-5 min | - | 15 min | 1-6 hrs | 10-24 hrs |
Effect Profile
116 reportsScores (1–10) curated from multiple sources:
- Effect keyword matching from PsychonautWiki catalog
- Validated against 101 Erowid trip reports
- Weighted by importance: core (×3), major (×2), minor (×1)
Benzodiazepine
6.1
Strong
6/10
Strong anxiolysis with moderate sedation and cognitive impairment, low euphoria
Anxiolysis
×3
8
anxiety suppression
anxiolytic
muscle relaxation
muscle relaxant
relaxation
emotion suppression
“so just be smart about it, you can, going from never having taken any benzo's in your life, take a 5 mg tablet and feel the designed effects of the drug, which are to calm, relax, slightly sedate and...”
“Clonazepam ( K-pins) give me the best long lasting anxiety relief.”
Sedation / Relaxation
×2
6
sedation
drowsiness
relaxation
muscle relaxation
“but anyway, you can also take a handful of those 5 mg tablets, say 50mg in total, or 100 mg in total, or even 200 mg in total, and you will feel very little more than the minimal dosage of valium...”
“Flurazepam (as Dalmane) also seemed all over and prescribed to everyone when I was growing up, seemed more hypnotic but also mellow like diazepam, long.”
Motor / Cognitive Impairment
×1
6
motor control loss
amnesia
memory suppression
delusions of sobriety
“Unmistakable effects (no delusions of sobriety with this one) but it wore off after like 4 hours.”
“Not everyone gets great effects from valium even if they have no tolerance and take a stupid amount of them..”
Euphoria / Mood Lift
×1
3
euphoria
physical euphoria
disinhibition
relaxation
“but anyway, you can also take a handful of those 5 mg tablets, say 50mg in total, or 100 mg in total, or even 200 mg in total, and you will feel very little more than the minimal dosage of valium...”
“I mean the couple times I have run out of my klonopin which I have a stupid high tolerance for, and all benzos in general.”
User Experience
anxiolysis
“so just be smart about it, you can, going from never having taken any benzo's in your life, take a 5 mg tablet and feel the designed effects of the drug, which are to calm, relax, slightly sedate and...”
Based on reports from:
Tolerance
Build-up
develops over 1–4 weeks of daily use; hypnotic tolerance faster than anxiolytic tolerance
Reset
weeks to months depending on half-life and duration of use; taper recommended
Tolerance Decay
Full tolerance
14d
Half tolerance
10d
Baseline
~35d
Acute tolerance: develops within a single session — the reset numbers above apply after sustained heavy use, not after one binge. Within-session tachyphylaxis usually resets largely overnight.
Tolerance develops to sedative/anxiolytic effects with repeated daily use over weeks and only slowly decays after cessation. Cross-tolerance is substantial across benzodiazepines and partial with other GABAergic sedatives.
Cross-Tolerances
Effects
Aggregated from 101 Erowid and 15 Bluelight experience reports
Positive Effects 26
Anxiety Suppression
49.2%
78%
Stimulation
40.6%
70%
Sedation
40.5%
89%
Euphoria
31.9%
82%
Contentment
26.7%
76%
Music Enhancement
23.2%
80%
Empathy
22.8%
70%
Tactile Enhancement
17.8%
70%
Focus Enhancement
14.9%
70%
Color Enhancement
13.9%
70%
Dizziness
13.3%
82%
Drowsiness
13.3%
82%
Body High
12.9%
70%
Pain Relief
7.9%
70%
Emotional Openness
6.7%
85%
Heaviness
6.7%
95%
Peace
6.7%
85%
Muscle Relaxation
6.7%
85%
Calmness
6.7%
90%
Timelessness
6.7%
70%
Adverse Effects 34
Confusion
24.2%
88%
Amnesia
20.0%
92%
Nausea
16.8%
70%
Memory Suppression
16.3%
82%
Motor Impairment
14.7%
84%
Body Load
13.3%
78%
Irritability
13.3%
80%
Decision-Making Impairment
13.3%
82%
Dysphoria
13.3%
88%
Emotional Blunting
13.3%
82%
Dissociation
9.5%
80%
Muscle Tension
8.9%
70%
Sweating
6.9%
95%
Entity Imagery
6.7%
85%
Scene Replacement
6.7%
80%
Depth Distortion
6.7%
75%
Time Compression
6.7%
85%
Visual Trails
6.7%
80%
Afterimages
6.7%
75%
Libido Suppression
6.7%
80%
Combinations
Cross-Check Diazepam with another substanceCommunity Trip Reports
Anecdotal first-person accounts from Reddit, Erowid, and Bluelight. Click a source to expand. Reports are harm-reduction context, not medical guidance.
Erowid 8 reports 1 positive 5 neutral 2 cautionary visit
I have been a valium user for over 4 years. I am 22 at the time and in near perfect health. A bit of asthma, but nothing serious. For me, this drug has many uses and I'll name a few. First off. . . relaxation. I have encountered no other drug that works as efficently. Secondly.
This report details my subjective experience following the oral administration of a legally prescribed dose of 5mg Diazepam (Valium) for the management of my chronic insomnia.
My experience started with a visit from a friend who brought with him 200 pills of what he said were home made 10mg pills of diazepam, they were lighter blue than the pharmacutical ones and very crumbly and at the bottom of the bag they were in was a lot of the same coloured powder and smaller crumbs.
I decided to take valium as an alternative to general anesthetic during my wisdom tooth extraction. I had never taken it before, and I am generally somewhat hesitant with psychoactive drugs.
I have decided to document my first real experience with Valium, and will try to update the record every fifteen minutes. I am quite an experienced user of alcohol, cannabis and cocaine, and have also tried mushrooms (psilocybin). I take lots of coffee (about 4 - 5 cups a day.
I was 21 at the time, and I was taking no other drugs, with the exception of aspirin, Tylenol, and Advil, all of which had so little if any affect that I had given up on them, and I drank only socially, lightly and infrequently.
I started taking Valium when I was 17 as a recreational drug; I only used it occasionally and was hardly addicted. I had taken pills like vicodin and codeine and never had an addiction to any of them, but I liked them a lot.
Bluelight 6 threads 6 neutral visit
I got to my friends party at about 10pm, just as things started to liven up. There was about 15 people there, most drinking from the keig (sp?), some passing a crack pipe around which i chose not to participate in. I pour a beer and sit down next to a girl that looks pretty out of it.
Last night I was given a reasonable amount of Diazepam powder to try out. It came as fluffy white powder. No realy notiable smell. After reading around online I decided to start with a 25mg dose, seeing as my scales are only accurate to 0.01g I measured out 100mg and then divided it by eye.
High Dose Benzodiazapine (Valium) 175mg High Experience Level Report As a brief introduction I have a pretty high tolerance to Benzo's in general. - I can take 2mg to 4mg of Xanax and not pass out. It would take 6mg-7mg to get me to sleep, let alone cause me to black out.
I came across some diazepam, and shortly thereafter I entered a relationship with a girl I had been fond of for about two years. These two events are unrelated, I should mention. The girl and I lived in different cities, each 4 hours apart. We saw each other on weekends when I could come into town.
so i think this was like a year ago, but i decided to post this trip report anyways. first of all, valium is this single shittest and depressing drug ever. it leaves you feeling (if you do feel at all) like a zombie. anyways. i left my house at maybe 12 midday on a saturday.
I pull in to the lot. Trade the bills. The transaction is made. I now look in awe at these little green pills that are soon going to sledgehammer my mind into oblivion.
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