DrugBuyers.Com: Why not Valium?

I think the doctor's contention that Valium is highly addictive is very generalistic as it obviously depends on the usage pattern, but more to the point, I would content it is no more addictive than Xanax given the same usage patterns.

Although the half-life is much longer, I spoke to a doctor and they said that Valium leaves the brain rather rapidly, so the clinical effects that you feel from Valium subside at maybe a more gradual rate than Xanax, but you will notice the dosing instructions for Diazepam are two or three times a day in most literature.

I can attest. I took 3 doses of Valium, 10mg, one day, the next morning I had no noticeable residual effects. I think you would have to take it for several days straight for it to build up.

As already one poster attested to that had panic/anxiety. The valium worked better than Xanax because it's not such a roller coaster ride. So I go back to my theory that I think Xanax's popularity is to a large degree because it is the pill-du-jour for Benzodiazepines and I would bet money that a good portion of people out there taking it (not everyone of course), would be better off taking Valium instead.

As everyone has noted before, you have to go on Valium to get off Xanax anyway.

I would be interested in hearing from someone who started on Valium, and then switched to Xanax with much better results. So far we have one case for the opposite.