Ativan (Lorazepam) history

The history of Lorazepam goes thirty years back to the date somewhere in 1971 when the drug was formulated on the base of benzodiazepines and patented by Wyeth Pharmaceuticals. It was then that this combination of medicinal components was branded under the name of Ativan, or Temesta. Its now more than forty-years-old selling record is one of the many proofs of the medicine’s being a commercial success, another one being the huge number of its generic variants that by now reach the number of seventy different marketing names.