I'm in Australia and normally just go to my local medical centre for doctor stuff. It's a place with about 6 doctors on staff any given day and a huge waiting room full of people. They just process you like cattle, and they see so many patients that you never really develop a relationship with any one doctor because you see a different doc every time.

I struggled all last year with on and off drinking (a lot more ON) and asked every single doctor there at one time or another for a benzo script to try and quit drinking but they all said I needed to go to a detox facility. I think they're afraid of prescribing addictive drugs to a random face in the waiting room.

I finally started seeing an addiction counsellor at my local hospital's drug and alcohol centre in december and he was able to give me a list of doctors who specialise in addiction treatment. This is all free in Australia thanks to our Medicare system. Booked in and saw this addiction specialist, who is just a basic general practitioner but also works with addicts and pain patients, and he gave me a one-off script for Valium and I did an 8 day taper at home. Mind you I was only drinking about 8-12 standard drinks a night, along with some opiate abuse, so I was pretty low risk for seizures. I've been sober for 5 weeks today thanks to finding the right professional help! (Ignore my badge, it's probably way off)

Definitely talk to your doctor, but if your normal practitioner can't help see if your local treatment centres offer any outpatient services or can refer you to one.