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ASAM-led multisociety panel — Joint Clinical Practice Guideline on Benzodiazepine Tapering

ASAM-led multisociety panel, 2025

Avoid abrupt cessation in physically dependent patients; individualize supervised tapering. Acute severe withdrawal with seizures/delirium requires monitored stabilization rather than applying outpatient percentage schedules.

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Alcohol & Benzodiazepine Withdrawal in the ICU

Recognition and treatment of severe withdrawal, delirium tremens and withdrawal seizures with symptom-triggered or front-loaded GABAergic therapy.

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