Things You'll Need:
- Valium (diazepam)
- willpower
- support
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Step 1
To understand what benzodiazepines are one must understand the actual nature of what they do. Unfortunately there are many constraints in how many words one can write on e-how I therefore will give an abridged version with a great link to the site of a woman, I personally believe is a legend and pioneer in recognizing the hazards and effects of benzodiazepines, Heather Ashton.
We have all heard of "mother's little helper" which refers to valium, generically known as diazepam. This was actually the second benzodiazepine, or minor tranquilizer, developed in this family of drugs. The first was Librium (chlordiazepoxide). Like alcohol these drugs bind to GABA (which is why they are so often used in alcohol detoxification) and thus when they are discontinued or tolerance develops a rebound effect occurs giving mirror image symptoms to their effects. For example instead of calm, you would be agitated, instead of tired you would get insomnia, etc.
Shorter acting benzodiazepines such as **** (alprazolam) and ativan (lorazepam) are even more hazardous due to the fact they have shorter half-lives and thus cause withdrawal even between dosing once tolerance develops. The Ashton Manual, to which I will provide a link, is an invaluable tool for medical personnel all over the world. The medical community often believes that patients are "drugs-seeking" when in reality the over-prescribing of these medications in itself causes an addiction. Anyone attempting to withdraw needs to know how to safely and their doctors need to be educated. For those of you who are self-addicted from recreational use, I will give some alternatives for safety reasons as benzodiazepines are, along with alcohol, the two most deadly drugs to come off of. -
Step 2
Ideally, if someone has access to a doctor that is sympathetic and has been "incidentally" addicted or even purposely addicted one would present the doctor with the Ashton Manual and withdraw in the slowest and easiest manner for the body to adjust to. However, we all know in reality, as with all drugs, this is not always the case.
For a rapid detox from all benzodiazepine drugs please see the "equivalency" table in the Ashton Manual to gauge what dosage of valium (diazepam) you should start on. You should then start by taking an equivalent amount of diazepam immediately and for the most rapid detox get yourself to the following levels:
Start withdrawing when you get to 15 to 25 mg four times daily. Administer sufficient additional diazepam to suppress signs of increased withdrawal, for example and increased pulse, increased blood pressure, or increased perspiration, anxiety and other "mirror" symptoms. Once a diazepam dose is reached which suppresses signs of withdrawal, continue for 2 days then start decreasing by 10% per day. When the diazepam dose approaches 10%, reduce the dose slowly over 3 to 4 days and then discontinue completely. Diazepam has a very long half life thus it will allow your body to slowly readjust. BUT it is not pain free and it is actually more painful and protracted than alcohol withdrawal. -
Step 3
Now if you do not have access to a doctor or more valium (diazepam) the last resort is to take another cross-tolerant tranquilizer. You have a couple of options in this case. You can legally obtain Soma or Fiorocet online. I have mentioned this in other articles and these can be obtained relatively cheaply and overnight from certified US pharmacies via the likes of www.netmedorders.com
The reason these will help is because Soma, a muscle relaxant degrades into methoprobomate, which is an old-fashioned tranquilizer. It will be very effective in suppression of symptomology just take care not to cross-addict. Fiorocet I am a bit more cautious with not so much because it is worse but because it contains acetaminophen (Tylenol or paracetemol in Europe) which is hepatoxic (toxic to the liver) . It is in fact so toxic that Tylenol/Paracetemol (apap is the chemical name) is the only drug that can, within days, cause hepatic necrosis (liver death) and kill you. The antidote is n-acetyl-cysteine but this must be administered within 72 hours and preferably 24 hours. That said, if taken for the barbiturate in Fiorocet you can suppress the effects of benzodiazepine withdrawal.
