Build a free week-by-week taper schedule based on Ashton Manual percentages — with dates, diazepam equivalents, and a printable chart to bring to your doctor.
Each calculator generates a full week-by-week reduction plan — dates, cut sizes, diazepam equivalents — that you can print and review with your prescriber.
Works for any benzo. Full schedule, chart, and printable plan.
Build a gradual alprazolam reduction schedule you can review with your prescriber — with dates, doses, and diazepam equivalents.
Generate a week-by-week clonazepam taper chart — with dates, cut sizes, and diazepam equivalents to review with your prescriber.
Plan a gradual lorazepam reduction — week-by-week doses, dates, and diazepam equivalents you can print for your prescriber.
Diazepam is the Ashton Manual's preferred tapering benzodiazepine. Build your week-by-week reduction schedule below.
Convert your benzodiazepine to its diazepam equivalent and generate an Ashton Manual–style reduction schedule.
Convert any benzo dose to its equivalent in another — Xanax to Valium, Klonopin to Valium, and more — with a full strength chart.
Why you feel anxious between doses — compare short vs. long-acting benzos.
A schedule is only half of it. The harder problem is finding a prescriber who will let you go slowly — and knowing what the one you already have is likely to say.
How to find a benzo-wise prescriber: every free provider list compared — including the ones we don't run — the five questions that predict how a taper goes, and the telehealth rule that changes on January 1, 2027.
Find a prescriberTwelve years of Medicare data on who prescribes benzodiazepines and who is cutting back. Claims fell 12.9% nationally — but more psychiatrists increased their prescribing than reduced it. See your state.
Explore the dataAligned with the Ashton Manual guidelines and current deprescribing protocols to ensure your taper is medically sound.
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OCTOBER 08, 2026 • 5 MIN READ
The fourth in our Provider Spotlight series: a Newton, Massachusetts psychiatrist and psychoanalyst on patient-led tapers of ten percent or less, why she asks patients to stabilize their nervous system before the first cut, and why a benzodiazepine taper is a marathon, not a sprint.
Read ArticleOCTOBER 07, 2026 • 3 MIN READ
The third in our Provider Spotlight series: a California telehealth psychiatrist practicing integrative psychiatry, on patient-led tapers, why there is no one right way to come off a benzodiazepine, and treating a taper as more than dosage steps.
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SEPTEMBER 23, 2026 • 5 MIN READ
A board-certified psychiatrist seeing taper patients in 43 states and D.C., on why 0.1 mg is not always 0.1 mg, treating symptom flares as information rather than failure, and why patients who have been on benzodiazepines for decades still have good reasons to be hopeful.
Read ArticleSEPTEMBER 21, 2026 • 3 MIN READ
The first in our Provider Spotlight series: a telehealth nurse practitioner serving seven mostly rural states, on hyperbolic tapering vs. the Ashton Method, preventing protracted withdrawal, and what she tells patients whose prescriber wants them off in four weeks.
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SEPTEMBER 17, 2026 • 6 MIN READ
For twenty years the Ashton Manual was the only serious tapering playbook. In June 2026, the Maudsley group published the first peer-reviewed, benzo-specific case for hyperbolic tapering — and the two approaches now openly disagree on two big questions. Here's what each says, and how to think about the differences.
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SEPTEMBER 01, 2026 • 4 MIN READ
Klonopin (clonazepam) has a half-life of 30 to 40 hours, so a single dose takes roughly 6 to 9 days to fully clear your system — one of the longest of any benzodiazepine. Here's the elimination timeline, detection windows, and what the long half-life means if you're reducing your dose.
Read ArticleClear, medical definitions for the terms you need to understand. Knowledge is your best defense against fear.
A clear medical definition of Akathisia and how it relates to benzodiazepine withdrawal symptoms.
A clear medical definition of Benzo Belly and how it relates to benzodiazepine withdrawal symptoms.
A clear medical definition of Chemical Anxiety and how it relates to benzodiazepine withdrawal symptoms.
A clear medical definition of Depersonalization and how it relates to benzodiazepine withdrawal symptoms.
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