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Benzodiazepines, especially short-acting ones, are profoundly dangerous if mishandled. It's important for people to understand their rapid addiction takes an opposite character to opioids -- it's not overdose, but too-rapid withdrawal that kills people.
Better than nothing when you're stuck in a hospital panicing, though. I'll get off them relatively expediently just the same way I did last time: with CBD. Yes; you'd be amazed just how effective CBD is to ease such a typically precarious thing.
Bear in mind that I've only been on them a week here for an emergency; somebody who's taken them longer will typically wean off for months at a time to be safe. A few years ago, after ~15mo of daily 2x 0.5 Xanax began to yield severe interdose-withdrawal panic attacks, I used CBD to safely discontinue over about three weeks with no interruption in anxiety relief. I really can't speak highly enough of the anxiolytic power of cannabidiol, and wish I never let my supply run out (haven't needed it!)