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Originally Posted by Paulos  I woke up today at like 5:30pm... *lovely time schedule* only to find out the new doctors office I'm going to is most likely not going to give me my Xanax, which helps me cope with life. |
If you have been on it regularly he/she should. I'd like to say "has to", but legally does not but should. Benzo withdrawals are very severe, for cold turkey they require hospitalization. If he/she is that stubborn as to say, "Well, you'd be better off" than you can just find another doctor but in the meantime go to the emergency room.
You can not come off benzos cold turkey. It's lethal, and can cause brain damage even if you slip through it without anguish.
Some doctors believe anyway that it's better to go that route despite its risks and damage because the odds of getting somebody who appreciates benzos off them is pretty much impossible, but that marks a bias on their part against what are really the safest psychoactive prescription drugs we have in legal medicine. Call him/her out on that and find out what him/her would rather prescribe and put together a case against his/her ethics.