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You may need to use less and less before you stop the medication completely. Thus the effect of benzodiazepines is to enhance the effects of the neurotransmitter GABA. Ativan should never be shared with another person, especially someone who has a history of drug abuse or addiction. The magnitude and duration of lorazepam effects are dose-related, meaning that larger doses have stronger and longer-lasting effects. Your symptoms may return when you stop using Ativan after using it over a long period of time. Additionally the elderly tend to take more drugs which may interact or enhance the effects of benzodiazepines. The anterograde amnesia and sedative-hypnotic effects of benzodiazepines such as lorazepam are sometimes used by predators on unwitting victims as date rape drugs, or for the purpose of robbery; however, alcohol is the most common drug involved in such crimes. This contrasts with the highly lipid-soluble diazepam, which, although rapidly absorbed orally or rectally, soon redistributes from the serum to other parts of the body, in particular body fat. * Sleep apnea – Sleep apnea may be worsened by lorazepam's central nervous system depressant effects. Hydrolysis of thee above product forms the desired product lorazepam.