Honestly, when I was in severe Heroin withdrawal, before I ended up in the ER, I had a stash of 2mg Alprazolam bars, and 5mg Diazepam tablets.
I took 4mg of Alprazolam, and 25mg of Diazepam, and they barely touched me.
They only did what they were supposed to do, kill the anxiety. But my anxiety was still pretty high.
I thought I would be able to go through the withdrawal with the help of some good benzos. BOY was I wrong.
Yawning wide enough to bruise my jaws, my legs were flapping around like jello (RLS) in extreme pain, skin was crawling out of me, vomiting and shitting every last bit of liquid I had in my body, then came the stomach bile acid, the whole 9 yards of a SEVERE opiate withdrawal.
I had no choice but to call an ambulance. My skin was turning yellow, and my lips were turning blue.
When the peramedics arrived to my house, they said "you're lucky you called us on time, you're severely dehydrated that could've possibly killed you or put you into a coma"
They immediately put me on IV fluids, Zofran for Nausea, Loperamide for diarrhea, and a 10mg Norco to help with pain, it didn't even TOUCH my withdrawal.
They said that's the most they can give without a doctors orders.
So I got to the ER, got admitted in less than 5 minutes, while the waiting time on average is 6 to 8 hours, it was that bad.
Then the Doctor ordered me meds that literally saved my life.
30mg Morphine, 2mg Ativan, 50mg Promethazine, 0.1mg Clonodine every 4 hours all IV.
Stayed there from Friday night to Monday morning. Since my insurance didn't cover rehab, I had to go and get admitted to a MMT (Methadone maintenance therapy) program, and Monday morning was the earliest the Methadone doctor would be available. My doctors and RN's were SO cool the way they took care of me.
My RN actually drove me to the MMT clinic, and stayed there with me throughout the whole process to get admitted to the program.
It took over 5 hours, and the RN even drove me back home. It was awesome, they knew I was dope sick, and still managed to take care of me like that.