*NO* *YOU MUST NOT STOP TALKING THE DRUG 'COLD TURKEY* ....
Benzo's (which is a class that diazepam belongs too) are as ad or worse then alcohol to quit from. Heavy ethenol drinkings, in a medication setting, often get barb's to because of the lack of cross tolerance on the GABA receptors (GABA keeps your body calm, from insantely going into life-threatening seizures and is also the 'therapeutic' effect from diazepam/Valium, and barbs and the recreational effects from alcohol and other depressents ...
The problem is that your body *MUST* have GABA simulation fro your body not to totally freak out, at the very least panic attacks and feeling like your going to jump out of your skin, at the works sudden death due to seizures. The half life of Diazepam is somewhat long - so you'll still have some in your system. Once your totally cleared of Diazepam you'll likely wake up a few days latter with brain damage due to the sieziers and the firing of the everyother neuron to the point of destruction because your body adjusted to the high levels of GABA (from your body and from what you've been taking) and now they excited themselves to death
You need mediation attention, you can't do this alone, nor is it safe to try. Aside from death, brain damage is often the result (however many experiments how shown that drugs that stimulate the NMDA receptors prevent the damage to the brain)
*NO MATTER WHAT* your button your life on the line and playing with fire, the best would be a in-hospital/clinic detox, if that's not possible because of job, or other reasons. You need to find a doctor that will put you on a controlled reduction of the drug so that you still feel half normal, and don't have the severe risks of what your doing now. You should ask him to write the script so you have to pick it up daily or every other day so the urge to 'take more then prescribed' and end up short is much reduced or eliminated with daily pickups
*TODAY* if you still have access to the drug try just try half a pill or quarter .... to keep your system stable... *REMEMBER* your tolerance to the drug will have reduced so you must be careful
*ALSO* you will still have to deal with the reason why your on the drug to begin with ..... Please email ..... I can help ......It could be a underlying medical condition, poor diet or depression that are giving you panic attacks, or it could be poor diet leading to depressing that's causing you to need them for sleep. No matter what I have very healthy suggests to help you through this and handle the reason you needed, or where drawn to them in the first place ....
Because of seizures I've gone from 3x .5 Klonopin/clonazepan to 4 x 2MG ... Mind you I'm a large guy with *plenty* of muscle (and sadly since I've been sick too 'insulation') and since drugs are protein, I'm 200LBS skinny, and I'm current tipping 300Lbs so although that's enough to killed the normal person 2x over I've managed to taper down without problem. But you must understand you need medical attention and you *MUST* taper ..... otherwise, even if your not putting your life in your hands - your getting brain damage from the rest of the neurons in your brain *NOT* being inhibited by the inhibitory GABA receptor because it's adjusted to your natural+artificial dose of GAMA simulators (which calms *everything*) else will either fire until the HSP (heat-shock-protein) turns it off to rest, it's damaged often for ever, and it's dead - always forever ....
HSP/Heat Shock Protein really has nothing todo with heat, except that the fact is that everytime a cell is in trouble it releases HSP trying to save its self and turn itself off - and when this was being researched the way they always could induce this was from heat, overheating... *HENCE* the name HSP... But it's released from everything from head trama, to heavy alcohol intoxication or anything else that damages the cells & neutrons ...
GABA is released during dead trama, cardiac events/situations nearing the time of cell damage to the brain because of lack of oxygen or blood flow - *HOWEVER* this is just being understood now. Mostly because the COPS and medical examiners started screening for the 'start rape drug' GHB, which turns into to GABA - and ignorantly declared high levels of GABA = GHB. There have been famous cases, that have tried to be hushed up, where the medical examiner has proudly proclaimed with the local police this is a another 'GHB/DESIGNER CLUB DRUG' related death (odd because it was discovered how to make it in France and has been used for 30 years safely as a safe and non addictive sleep aid - something North American 'medical science' is still 'looking for' . In fact now it's be used for head trauma and heart attacks by the really caring and education doctors specifically because it increases the cells efficiency in consuming oxygen and seems to delay death and damage in the absence of oxygen, or blood flow. This is the evolutionary reason GA