Mr Blonde do you have valium for withwrawal/tapering purpose off xanax? Im sure you know this but the long half life seems to make it the perfect benzo to use for such a purpose. Remember those PMs I sent you a few weeks back regarding 100 pan fortes boxes? Well swap that with valium easy enough.
I've already come off the Xanax, that was a couple of months or so ago I finally got off it. Funny story actually; so I get checked into rehab or HADS at the hospital here, I'm there and I'd already taken a heap of clonazepam in the morning before going in. Straight off the nurses are accusing me of lying about my benzo use because I had told them my main drug I had been using was alprazolam and since I'd taken a heap of clonazepam that morning when I went in I wasn't in WD. I told them that I had used clonazepam and told them to check my blood/urine levels if they didn't believe me. I did get urine and blood samples taken, didn't ever hear back on the results though as I'll explain.
So then I see the doctor on my first day in there and he is a lot more understanding and he says to me that because the nurses are working around drug addicts they develop prejudiced views and sometimes won't treat you nicely, which he thought was unfair but there isn't a lot he can do about it. I get put on multiple doses of diazepam a day.
Anyway, in rehab there is fucking NOTHING to do. On my first day we had one Narcotics Anonymous meeting thing, where we all sat there and listened to three previous junkies tell their stories. The rest of the time there was absolutely nothing to do, no drug counselling offered or anything like that. So I spent most of my time reading my pharmacology book.
The second day, in the morning after breakfast we were allowed outside on the balcony to get some sun. I'm reading my pharmacology book and this one bitch nurse sees it and says 'I don't think that's appropriate reading material for detox'. Well sure enough, half an hour later when it's time for my meds they confiscate my books. I was so angry, first I get treated like shit and now I don't have my books so the only thing for me to do while I'm in rehab is sit around and listen to everyone else there talk about how much they want to get high and how when they get out they are going to have low tolerances and be able to get high as fuck again. Basically the only conversation there was reminiscing about drugs. Not a healthy environment for getting clean, am I right?
So straight after they confiscated my books, I use my phone card and make a call to my brother and ask him to count my clonazepam stash. I do some quick calculations and figure out I just have enough to taper off over two weeks. I then go to the nurses desk and tell them I'm checking out. They say, 'oh but you will have a seizure, etc...' and I say 'listen, you've treated me like shit, you've taken my books which were MEDICAL TEXTBOOKS NOT BOOKS ON HOW TO GET HIGH and I have access to enough benzos on the outside to taper myself off!' They then quietly gave me all my belongings back and let me go. I got picked up, went home, dosed some clonazepam and then did a CWE to relax myself.
So that's the story of my one day in rehab. I tapered off over two weeks using clonazepam, it was tough but I got through it because I needed to get back to work and I needed to get clean. I won't go in to the bullshit I did while addicted to Xanax though, I'm ashamed enough of that already.