Flunitrazepam is best used for getting to sleep and relieving insomnia, and is one of the most effective drugs for inducing sleep around.It can also be used for anxiety, although a doctor would never prescribe it for this condition. If you find yourself with extreme anxiety and flunitrazepam is all you have to relieve it, it may help to take 0.5mgs or even 0.25mgs of flunitrazepam. These doses can be approximated by cutting a 1mg tablet in half or in quarters. A full 1mg is more likely to “knock the user out” than relieve anxiety. This use of flunitrazepam would certainly be for exceptional, emergency-only situations. Because the drug is likely to cause amnesia, this would not be a good idea if you have to interact with people or have something important to do, since the drug may alter your behavior.Flunitrazepam is also used for relieving withdrawal symptoms of other drugs, such as opioids, alcohol and stimulants like cocaine, amphetamine and crystal meth. It is of course effective for relieving insomnia, a common withdrawal symptom of many drugs, and eases the syndrome by “sleeping through” sections of it. Of course, it is unwise to treat the withdrawals of an addictive drug with another addictive drug like flunitrazepam.Unfortunately, flunitrazepam is also used for date-rape, wherein a rapist spikes the drink of his intended victim, or uses some other way of drugging the victim, and will then rape the victim while he or she is unconscious. While flunitrazepam or “roofies” is the most well-known date-rape drug, one study by Robertson found that it is only used in 1% or date-rape cases; rapists tend to use soporific drugs that are easier to acquire than flunitrazepam, such as GHB.
Another criminal use of flunitrazepam is in “drug-assisted robbery” where a victim is drugged by flunitrazepam into an unresponsive state and subsequently robbed.Sadly, flunitrazepam is sometimes used for suicide, by deliberately taking an overdose.