Oh yes and I am one of the crisis counselors lol.

You’re correct that doctors know about tapering. The fact of the matter is that most want to taper much, much too quickly. The docs don’t want to deal with patients who have been on Benzos for decades and require very long tapers. They give ridiculously short taper schedules that are harming people horribly. Doctors don’t want to be in the tapering business, they just want to make a whole lot of money writing scripts. Long time PRESCRIBED benzo patients are treated like dogs by the same doctor s that prescribed them in the first place. The exact same doctors that said they weren’t addictive and safe. Benzo patients are in a bad place right now. The doctors don’t want to prescribe them anymore but don’t want to do what’s necessary to help their very addicted patients come off these drugs in a humane manner.