Benzodiazepine withdrawal schedules

[rocksmokinmachine]

Alot of people on the forum have asked how to successully withdraw from benzodiazepines. Here is a simple withdrawal schedule from 40mg of diazepam (each drop will be 1 week). One can adjust the schedule to meet thier own personal needs. I will be working on some more and posting withdrawal schedules for high dose alprazolam, lorazepam, nitrazepam, clonazepam aswell. Here is a thread on benzodiazepine equivelant doses, from The Ashton Manual. http://www.drugs-forum.com/forum/sho...iazepine+chart. It is always best to convert to a diazepam substitution as it is much longer lasting than other benzos. e.g 20mg of temazepam is roughly equal to 10mg of diazepam.

Slow withdrawal from 40mg diazepam

morning dose	afternoon dose	total dose
20mg	20mg	40mg
18mg	20mg	38mg
18mg	18mg	36mg
16mg	18mg	34mg
16mg	16mg	32mg
14mg	16mg	30mg
14mg	14mg	28mg
12mg	14mg	26mg
12mg	12mg	24mg
10mg	12mg	22mg
10mg	10mg	20mg
8mg	10mg	18mg
8mg	8mg	16mg
6mg	8mg	14mg
5mg	8mg	13mg
4mg	8mg	12mg
3mg	8mg	11mg
2mg	8mg	10mg
1mg	8mg	9mg
-	8mg	8mg
-	7mg	7mg
-	6mg	6mg
-	5mg	5mg
-	4mg	4mg
-	3mg	3mg
-	2mg	2mg
-	1mg	1mg
-	-	-

Reputation Comments on this post:

	Fantastic & important work, & much appreciated!
	Usefull Info
	Really nice job! Thanks for this!
	Great work, I'm sure this is invaluable info to users planning to withdraw from benzos.
	helpful and informative
	Very helpful info to have around.
	Very useful information, though adding a preffered timescale column would be a good idea to avoid confusion
	good job. hopefully this thread reaches the people who really need it