It can be argued till you're blue in the face. It'll be a big no, until you present at A&E, and then even if you swing a doctor there, it'll be a rapid taper over 1-2 weeks, at best.
You’ll have your stash taken off you within a week. More and more prisons are getting internal scanners as well, so they can see if you’ve stashed anything up your brown eye.
I was once on a SMART recovery group ran by a recovered addict who had been in prison in the UK. He said addicts got 3 days triangulation taper (to get off everything) and they were thankful to get that by the sounds of it. It looks to be extremely unlikely yoiu'd get a BZ script inside, although if required for severe anxiety diagnosed by a shrink this may or may not be a different matter, I couldn't rightly say. Maybe try to taper down yourself as much as possible as soon as possible, while you can, just in case. Hopefully your fears will not be borne out. Often we can fear something that never will happen. If you then don't get sent down you will have reduced your Bz dose anyway, which is usually not a bad thing in the long run.
Yes, in my experience.
I got GP help up north, brought in a print out of the ashton manual, which explains how dangerous a fast taper or cold tukey is with benzos. I was using rc benzos and explained those to. I got put on a diaz taper no problem so it depends on the Dr I guess..
They give you 4 2mg diazepam twice a day if you tell them you are going through alcohol withdrawal, and you have to eat them in front of the dispenser.
Not sure about the UK, but no doctor in no Irish prison will give you benzos. You've got to buy them from other guests, Mirtazapine is what they'll give you. No benzos of any kind... That said, most jails are full of 'blues',usually pressed etizolaam but they'll put you on yer back so understandably they are fairly popular. Zimmos are also ubiquitous within the system.