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When taken orally benzodiazepines are not respiratory depressants (they don't slow the breathing as opiates do)* and so it would be difficult to cause death by over-dose with them.

In rats 4000 mg per kg of body weight kills about half the time. So assuming humans are the same, which is not a safe assumption, an average size person would need to take about 280,000 mg to have a 50-50 chance of death.

* There have been some studies showing slight, probably clinically insignificant, respiratory depression with large doses of fast acting benzos given IV.

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