I believe gabapentin was once believed to be a positive allosteric modulator (PAM) on certain GABA, and now they don’t even believe that to be the case but it somehow affects GABA expression and activity indirectly. (It’s definitely not a GABA agonist.)
It is also not very potent but there is another drug that shares its mechanism that is potent in single digit mg amounts: pregabalin (Lyrica). It is potent and kinda sorta abusable (not really) and they both can produce a super mild but benzo-ish sedation for a couple hours for a day or two.
It is apparently a coincidence that the drug seemed to resemble GABA and got its name though. Strange.
It is also not very potent but there is another drug that shares its mechanism that is potent in single digit mg amounts: pregabalin (Lyrica). It is potent and kinda sorta abusable (not really) and they both can produce a super mild but benzo-ish sedation for a couple hours for a day or two.
It is apparently a coincidence that the drug seemed to resemble GABA and got its name though. Strange.