- Half Life: 8 to 15 hours
- Metabolism via Glucuronidation to inactive metabolites
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Anxiety Disorder
- Elderly: 10 mg orally 3 times daily (and may advance to 15 mg orally 3 to 4 times daily)
- Moderate: 10 to 15 mg orally 3 to 4 times daily
- Severe: 15 to 30 mg orally 3 to 4 times daily
- Maximum Daily Dose: 120 mg/day
- Acute Alcohol Withdrawal
- Give 15 to 30 mg orally three to four times daily
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Valium = Dose x1.0
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Phenobarbital = Dose x3.0
- (2019) Med Lett Drugs Ther 61(1578): 121-6
- (2020) Presc Lett, Resource #361206, Appropriate Use of Benzodiazepines
- Olson (2020) Clinical Pharmacology, Medmaster Miami, p. 55
- Hamilton (2020) Tarascon Pocket Pharmacopoeia
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