1950 Hoffman- La Roche Swiss healthcare and pharmaceutical company in Europe was the first developed Benzodiazepines founded by scientist Leo Sternbach. Between 1960 and 1970 Sternbach and a group of researchers under his direction helped him altered the primary benzodiazepine complex and introduced many different benzodiazepine which include flunitrazepam. With the development of flunitrazepam Leo made Roche pharmaceutical industry a very big hit. By 1975 Roche released many of Sterbach’s tranquillizers and the first drug to be introduced was flunitrazepam. When the creation of Benzodiazepines came about the medical community anticipated that this drug would be less dangerous than many of the current drugs. Doctors were hoping that this drug
