Posted by Chairman_MAO on March 12, 2011, at 0:49:44
In reply to Phenobarbital as a benzo detox » ed_uk, posted by Quintal on December 23, 2006, at 10:48:11
There is no reason to resort to using phenobarbital unless you cannot obtain benzodiazepines for some reason. If your benzo dose were high enough, you could still seize or be *very* uncomfortable. Trust me, don't go there.
IMHO, the best benzodiazepine to use for detox is Tranxene (clorazepate). In theory, you could give a huge loading dose (or titrate to effect by dosing every hour or two). Clorazepate is a prodrug for nordiazepam, which has a very long half-life (36-200+ hours).
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