Contact your doctor if this medicine seems to stop working as well in treating your symptoms.

Do not use this medication without telling your doctor if you are breast-feeding a baby. Longer-term use, up to six months, does not result in further accumulation. Like oxazepam, it does not require hepatic oxidation, but only hepatic glucuronidation into lorazepam-glucuronide. Lorazepam's anticonvulsant and CNS depressant properties are useful for the treatment and prevention of alcohol withdrawal syndrome. Lorazepam tablets and syrups are administered by mouth only. However, phenobarbitol has a superior success rate compared to lorazepam and other drugs, at least in the elderly. edit ChemistryLorazepam is synthesized according to a scheme containing some of the same elements for the synthesis of chlordiazepoxide and oxazepam. Catatonia with inability to speak is responsive and sometimes controlled with a single 2 mg oral, or slow intravenous dose of lorazepam. Ativan overdose symptoms may include extreme drowsiness, confusion, muscle weakness, fainting, or coma. Ativan is used to treat anxiety disorders.