DifludiazepamMaskell PD, Wilson NE. Designer Benzodiazepines: New Challenges and Treatment Options, in Corazza O, Roman-Urrestarazu. Handbook of Novel Psychoactive Substances: What Clinicians Should Know about NPS. Taylor & Francis, 2019. (Ro07-4065) is a benzodiazepine derivative which is the 2',6'-difluoro derivative of fludiazepam. It was invented in the 1970s but was never marketed, and has been used as a research tool to help determine the shape and function of the GABAA receptors, at which it has an IC50 of 4.1nM. Difludiazepam has subsequently been sold as a designer drug, and was first notified to the EMCDDA by Swedish authorities in 2017.

See also Diclazepam Flubromazepam Ro07-3953 Ro07-5220 SH-I-048A

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