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Resulting symptoms of sudden stoppage of 50 years of diazepam usage?
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There really is not anything that truly helps with anxiety other than benzodiazepines and doctors are slowly but surely getting away from prescribing them. If you have an old doctor you may get them for a while. If your doctor dies or retires and all you can find is a younger doctor you’ll probably be out of luck. The doctors are prescribing antipsychotics off label, antidepressants exclusively or beta blockers off label. There really isn’t anything else out there.
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Doctors are still prescribing them.
and there are doctors who specialize in very slow withdrawal.
Here is a book online/free that is considered to be the gold standard. It is "The Ashton Manual". I cannot link yet as I am new.
Best of luck to you.
"The Ashton Manual. The Ashton Manual, written by the late psychopharmacologist Heather Ashton, presents the most well-known and respected withdrawal method in the benzodiazepine community. Dr. Ashton ran a benzodiazepine-withdrawal clinic in the U.K. for fourteen years, which reported a 90% success rate."