Etizolam, being a classical benzodiazepine variant, possesses characteristics that make the physiological addiction symptoms less severe than a benzodiazepine equipotent by weight (like alprazolam i.e. Xanax). That's what first attracted me to it.
HOWEVER, because its pharmacokinetics are so similar to those of Xanax in that they are each potent milligram for milligram, exhibit high protein binding in the blood and have very short half-lives, you must not taper off of this class of drugs with it. Doing so greatly,
greatly increases the risk of withdrawal-related complications.
Due to how miserable you're likely to feel, there's also an associated increased risk of relapse to stop the withdrawal symptoms - and then, guess what? You're back at square one. And square one sucked, too!
Ah, GABAergic tranquilizers...
You must switch over to a benzodiazepine with at least the half-life of Klonopin (e.g. commonly between 30 and 50 hours, not 4-6), but most doctors will even strongly suggest moving to a medication with an exceptionally long half-life. The two most common are Librium (and I can tell you, you don't want to be on Librium, it's an awful feeling) and especially Valium, whose half-life can approach 120 hours in some people.
I take it, based off the fact that etizolam is very popular amongst people who like the feeling of a benzo but who are not prescribed one, along with the fact that you mentioned waiting for your order, that you do not have a psychiatrist who can help you wean yourself off of these things by dispensing a legitimate diazepam prescription?
There have been a great many people in your boat as of late, I've noticed. If you don't have a doctor who can help you, you
must, must, must thoroughly research the symptoms and course of benzodiazepine withdrawal enough such that you understand it from a pharmacological and neurological level. After fifteen years on benzodiazepines, I can tell you it was only after I'd mastered my understanding of what they are thought to do to the body, in conjunction with what experience had shown me they do to MY body, that I felt comfortable during the course of a given withdrawal to assess whether or not I would do well to go seek emergency medical attention in order to avoid massive seizures. Whilst my perception of your situation is based off of sparse subjective experience and nothing more, if you'd been taking etizolam for two months straight, chances probably weigh in favor of your not being at especially high risk for a massive tonic-clonic seizure.
That said, you just
never know.
If you can continue to find clonazepam while you wait for your order (I'm assuming an online order of Etilaam tablets), you will be uncomfortable, but fine generally speaking. Heroin will not do for your ailing brain what the benzos will as you taper off of them completely. Heroin would certainly make you "feel better," but it won't stave off withdrawal symptoms.
The last thing you ought to do after collecting a firm supply of medication, is
GET OFF OF IT!!!!! And the following article, if you take just three minutes to read it, describes
exactly why that is so imperative -
Why We Don't Get Better Immediately: Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome (PAWS)
And don't kid yourself. The slight structural variation from the classical benzodiazepines that allows etizolam to remain unscheduled is not enough of a variation so as to make it, in any sense of the word, "safe."
Etizolam addiction is becoming so widespread that, although it is not as highly publicized as the crisis resulting from ignorant thrill-seekers tangling with 25I-NBOMe, it's becoming a societal snake whose head will be cut off by the authorities. You do not want to be around when that happens, hopelessly addicted to it and now without being able to order it like one might a DVD set.
Be careful, my friend. Acute benzodiazepine withdrawal is a medical emergency.
Stay in touch with us and let us know how it goes. Keep asking questions. Seek the help of a professional as soon as you get off Bluelight this evening.
~ Vaya
EDIT: Thanks to
neversickanymore for posting one of, if not the, best and most comprehensive benzodiazepine-specific withdrawal resources available. Give that entire manual (don't worry, its not a textbook!) a deep review, okay?
Be well - Feel better!
