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The injectable solution comes in 1 mL ampoules containing 2 mg or 4 mg lorazepam. Ativan is used to treat anxiety disorders. This explains why one lorazepam dose, despite lorazepam's shorter serum half-life, has more prolonged peak effects than an equivalent diazepam dose. Contact your doctor if this medicine seems to stop working as well in treating your symptoms. Cold or allergy medicine, narcotic pain medicine, sleeping pills, muscle relaxers, and medicine for seizures, depression or anxiety can add to sleepiness caused by Ativan. This metabolism does not involve hepatic oxidation and, therefore, is relatively unaffected by reduced liver function. Other adverse effects include confusion, ataxia, anterograde amnesia and hangover effects. Reaction of the above product with acetic anhydride leads to a Polonovski type rearrangement reaction, giving a 3-acetoxylated benzodiazepine, 7-chloro-1,3-dihydro-3-acetoxy-5-(2′-chlorphenyl)-2H-benzodiazepin-2-one. Richards. This explains why one lorazepam dose, despite lorazepam's shorter serum half-life, has more prolonged peak effects than an equivalent diazepam dose.