A comparative study between two new benzodiazepine hypnotics.

Flunitrazepam (Rohypnol) 2,0 mg and triazolam (Halcion) 0,5 and 1,0 mg were compared clinically as hypnotics in 120 patients the night before operation. The patients were divided into three groups of 40 each. Both substances proved to be active and resulted in the patients experiencing a better quality of sleep than normal.

[Treatment of general psychovegetative disorders with a single night dose of dipotassium-clorazepate within a multicenter study (author's transl)].

The therapeutical effect of Tranxilium was studied in an open multicenter study by 66 general practitioners and 26 specialists. 1.027 patients were treated with Tranxilium 20, given in a single dose at night, for a period of three weeks.