This is an articale about some drugs that need to be tapered off of

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The symptoms and clinical management of alcohol, barbiturate and benzodiazepine withdrawal syndromes are discussed in this article. People who suffer alcohol withdrawal should be admitted to hospital if they have medical or surgical complications or severe symptoms; supportive care and pharmacotherapy, especially diazepam loading, are the essential components of treatment. Barbiturate withdrawal requires pharmacotherapy and admission to hospital for patients who have taken more than 0.4 g/d of secobarbital or an equivalent amount of another barbiturate for 90 days or longer, or 0.6 g/d or an equivalent dose for 30 days or longer, or who have had withdrawal seizures or delirium; phenobarbital loading is recommended. Regular benzodiazepine therapy that has lasted at least 3 months should be gradually stopped. Short-acting agents should be replaced with long-acting ones, such as diazepam, to avoid withdrawal symptoms. Most of these patients can be managed on an outpatient basis

SophieShine · Answer

thanx avis! I sometimes jump out of my skin when I see the comments about benzo...

quadracersteve · Answer

Maybe I'm the lucky one, and I will admit that while I would be talking to my dr., he would already be writing a script for me, then out the door. I suffer awful anxiety and after exhausting all anti-depressants for anxiety, my dr. put me on Xanax,( I actually argued w/him that he already had me on this before,( it really was Zantac 75 for the Celebrex I was on, I just had never heard of Xanax before. This was 12 yrs ago.))Anyways, my final dose was 1 1/2mg, 4x's/day, or 6mg, daily, and I was on this for        2 1/2yrs. Once he found out I was using H, he took me off the xanax, but it didn't take too long. I went from 1 1/2 mg, 4x's/day to 1mg, 4x's/day for a week then 1/2mg, 4x's/day for a week then break the 1/2's into 1/4's and take those 4x's/day for a week and at the end I felt fine. Believe me, I know how awful the w/drawals are from bz's. Second only to opiates IMO.
    Everyone here is right, tho, drs. help is needed and you need to taper fairly slow. I have a friend who had 3 seizures stoping CT, and the last time his head ended up under a cars tire, just as this person was backing out. Thank god his friends were there or he wouldn't be here today. I think that is the biggest scare a dr. has w/giving out benzos, having a seizure. Then dying, so read up before accepting the prescription, and if you feel uncomfortable, there are new benzo-TYPE drugs, ie.Buspar and Effexor. I hear those work fairly well, and are non-addictive.

gnarly_1 · Answer

I just wanted to add that with the benzo's its important to have a doctor involved... the taper requires a couple of months of slowly reducing your dose and will require a lot of different strengths of meds along the way...I did this under a doctors supervision and it was still difficult to do under the best of circumstances...please seek professional help with this.. this is not a do it your self project.........Gnarly

dominosarah · Answer

These are just the main ones.  ANY benzo needs to be tapered.

avisg · Answer

there are a few more benzos the ones i name are the most used

dominosarah · Answer

Thanks for putting this up avis.....We always need to be careful with these meds.

avisg · Answer

benzodiazepines are xanax ,ativan,klonopin ,valium. Valium is the safest of of the benzos but is still addictive and needs to be tapered .

the most used barubate Chemical Name
Butalbital is the gerinic name
	Fiorinal, Fioricet now there are many many more but this is the one that we see here the most and we have seen the most abuse of on this forum