I have a lot of experience with benzodiazepine abuse and addiction. I seriously doubt that anyone would get withdrawals from any amount of xanax if it is substituted by a whopping 60mg of diazepam. Yes, you may feel slightly uncomfortable and you may be craving higher levels of benzos but that is not proper withdrawal. In my experience, gabaergic substances are quite forgiving when it comes to dose reductions or to substitution. I was extremely dependent on GBL, ingested 30ml every day just to function. 50mg of diazepam completely blocked the GBL withdrawal, no problems whatsoever. Similarly, I witnessed my alcoholic dad substituting insane amounts of liquor with just 2.5mg/day of Klonopin, he didn't go into withdrawal, he was just a bit shaky and weak.
When I was heavily addicted to xanax and diazepam I ate around two whole blisters of the two benzos per day, that was 10mg xanax and 100mg diazepam. When I stopped taking them, it took almost a week before withdrawal even started properly. The xanax concentration in my blood was gone after two days but the residual and declining levels of diazepam and metabolites kept me out of withdrawal for at least another 5 days. It takes far less benzo to prevent withdrawal than it takes to get you "high".
@OP: Why do you take the diazepam EOD? That gives you a rollercoaster of blood levels. Instead of 30mg EOD, why not try 10mg daily as your next step?
I was taking maybe 15 10mg diazepam a day and when I had Xanax bars or ksaol I was taking maybe 6mg, I was messy.
This was the case maybe 6-7 years
Then I discovered Modafinil which I take in mornings also for work and I go gym and exercise hard.
Example monday clonzepam.5-1mg for anxiety at work / night diazepam 20-30mg
Tues clonz.5 mg night zopiclone 7.5mg
Wednesday clonz .5 mg night nitrazepam 10mg
Thursday clonz 0.5mg day xanax 1-2 mg night
Modafinil 200mg in morning
Then 1 week I won’t take any benzo just Modafinil
If I’m stressed or work is hard I’ll take clonz in 0.5 doses. I don’t miss benzo now like I used to I use it for a reason now and my doses are purely to stop anxiety or help sleep I never go over the dose
Also I have no tolerance zopiclone 7.5mg makes me sleep 8 hours now nitrazepam knocks me out xanax at 1-2 mg melts anxiety away and 20 mg diazepam chills me, I’ve done this for 2 years now successfully
Also I’ll add clonzepam is amazing best daytime anxiety killer at 0.5 mg wow but it is important to add I do go gym also 5 days a week as well as work.
This is my personal way and this worked for me so if this helps anyone else I’ll be happy to have helped.
When I was taking 10-15 10mg diazepam daily Xanax and 3-4 20 mg temazepam man I was a mess tolerance build also I was fucked couldn’t see a way out then I found Modafinil and I made this plan and this saved me no doubt