Posted by Ame Sans Vie on August 10, 2003, at 0:57:51
In reply to Re: 20mg of Klonopin?? » Ame Sans Vie, posted by mattdds on August 9, 2003, at 23:50:48
Something else interesting regarding the safety of benzos is that Klonopin's LD50 for rats and mice is 4,000mg/kg, and in rabbits it's 2,000mg/kg. Even though animal LD50's aren't necessarily a great indicator of what may be a fatal dose for a human, if we use the rabbit LD50 as an example, it would take around 145,000mg of Klonopin to kill a 160-pound person; using the rat/mouse LD50, it would be 290,000mg!! So, in essence, it's pretty much impossible to OD on the stuff for two reasons:
1 -- Where the heck would you get that much Klonopin?? And if you *were* somehow able to procure it, surely thoughts of suicide would quickly be replaced with thoughts of selling the darned things and becoming filthy rich, lol!
2 -- If the LD50's listed above are similar to the LD50 in humans, one would need to ingest anywhere from 72,500-145,000 2mg pills.
As a side note, just a thought I'm having... First of all, each pill weighs more than the amount of clonazepam in it due to all the fillers. I'd be interested to find out exactly how much one 2mg pill weighs, but for argument's sake, let's just say that a 2mg Klonopin weighs about half as much as a regular paperclip, 250mg. Then 72,500 pills would weigh 18,125 grams. Now, if memory serves me correctly, it takes about 14 liters (14,000g) of water to kill a person of average weight. That would make the pills themselves less toxic than water!
I must reiterate though, the LD50's listed above are just for the sake of example; the human LD50 for clonazepam is not known (for obvious reasons).
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