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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