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What is your strategy for discontinuing benzodiazepines in patients with PTSD?

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Psychiatry · University of Miami Miller School of Medicine/ Jackson Memorial Hospital - Jackson Health System

As always, remember that the person has developed habituation and dependency with subsequent definite withdrawal. In our clinic at the U of Miami, the protocol is the reduction, depending on the amount of dependency, of about 10 to 15% per month, sometimes requiring a compounding pharmacy. If you go...

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