adinazolam

Description: Adinazolam ( Deracyn) is a benzodiazepine analogue, more specifically, a triazolobenzodiazepine (TBZD). It possesses anxiolytic, anticonvulsant, sedative, and antidepressant properties. Adinazolam was developed by Dr. Jackson B. Hester, who was seeking to enhance the antidepressant properties of alprazolam, which he also developed. Adinazolam was never FDA approved and was never available to the public.

References: Leussis MP, Lawson K, Stone K, Andersen SL. The enduring effects of an adolescent social stressor on synaptic density, part II: Poststress reversal of synaptic loss in the cortex by adinazolam and MK-801. Synapse. 2008 Mar; 62(3):185-92. PubMed PMID: 18081181.