I have a great pdoc, who I love and who is a miracle worker with my meds, but he's relatively unfamiliar with addiction issues, and like many pdoc's doesn't in my opinion take discontinuation syndrome seriously enough.


I plan to taper off clonazepam this year after being on a high dose for over 20 years. I want to use the Ashton protocol for detoxing, as that's what my addiction Dr uses and I've seen her taper many people of benzos successfully. When I've raised the subject in the past with my pdoc, he's just suggested a fairly rapid dosage taper.

I'm hoping to convince him to follow the Ashton protocol. Any advice on convincing him?

Thanks.

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