Howdy Phil!

That's the way I do my lorazapam!

Under the tongue, the medication goes right through the skin (or mucus
membrane or whatever) directly into the blood. If you swallow it, it goes
into the stomach, gets diluted with gastric fluids and gets absorbed more
slowly in the digestive tract.

Trouble with me is that when I really need my emergency lorazapam, I don't
usually have enough wits about me to keep it in my mouth and I end up
swallowing it anyway.

BTW: it would probably get into your system even faster if you took a single
chomp on it with your incisors (front teeth) before sticking it under the
tongue. That would break up the pill so that it wouldn't need to disolve
very much.