Benzodiazepine Withdrawal

If you have tried to get off a benzodiazepine in the past you very well know the withdrawal can be brutal. The thought of even trying again may feel overwhelming. We understand, and our program is designed to help you feel well; reduce the common daytime anxiety and insomnia that usually run hand-in-hand.

Since 1999, The Road Back has helped over 40,000 people, just like you, become drug free. You can make it. Read one of our success stories from a person that just started the program below.

"I am still taking Klonopin and have not began to taper yet. I have been suffering from the inability to sleep for over a year now. I was prescribed Klonopin to help with anxiety and for sleep. On the second night of using the cherry capsules at bedtime, I slept for 6 1/2 hours straight, woke up, looked at the clock and rolled back over and slept for 2 more hours. I did not have the usual nightmares. I now feel I can confront tapering off the Klonopin."

The above story is what The Road Back Program is about. Getting you to feel better again, sleeping, daytime anxiety diminished and most or all other side effects eliminated.

Reducing the benzodiazepine is actually the easy part of the program. A systematic and slow reduction of the benzodiazepine is required to avoid withdrawal.

Many of you coming to our site are already in withdrawal and reading is difficult. You can click chapter number 14 located on the right side of this page for answers or call us toll free at 1-866-892-0238 or send us an e-mail to info@theroadback.org and we can guide you through what needs to be done.

You do not have to purchase a book to start our program All chapters of the bestselling book, How to Get Off Psychiatric Drugs Safely, 2010 Edition, are located on the right side of this web site. We suggest you start with A Note From James Harper, Founder, The Road Back, and proceed through the chapters. This is a time not to rush, but to educate yourself as much as possible, decide on the method you will use and then proceed.

You may have found other benzodiazepine withdrawal programs that seem similar to The Road Back. Since 1999, our founder James Harper has trained hundreds of healthcare providers and some have made a little change to this program and relabeled it in their own name. These other programs are not causing harm, but they are still using the withdrawal methods taught between 1999 and 2005 and there are much better successes with the new discoveries since those early years.

An example is the use of the B vitamin biotin, with benzodiazepine withdrawal. Recent studies show a prolonged use of a benzodiazepine will deplete biotin from the body. What happens when biotin is depleted? A feeling of detachment, depression, numbness or tingling of the extremities, anxiety and more will be the result. This is new information from research conducted during 2009 that greatly increased the success rate with benzodiazepine withdrawal.

Here is what one psychiatrist has to say about The Road Back Program

"Here is an essential handbook on how to safely and more easily wean yourself (under medical supervision) off the heavily over-prescribed psychotropic medications. I have used the program with my patients and it works!” Hyla Cass M.D. Author of Supplement Your Prescription

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