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they first hit the scene in the 1960s and quickly became immortalized in mainstream culture. when volume was popped like candy by troubled housewives and men alike. >> volume works promptly to relieve anxiety and apprehension. side effects other than drowsiness, fatigue are rarely encountered. >> they will never know pain like this and it never stops. >> this is what thousands are seeing about benzos today. >> the tremors never stop. >>, and debbie wagner had zero concerns when ther...

Talk about going through withdrawals. so many of their symptoms are so similar and as i was listening to all of these people i just could not help but think about my own father. he went through a period going without sleep for days.s body was jerking profusely all the time. he was crying all the time and he was prescribed klonopin. i just have to wonder if i had anything to do with benzos. hey, i get it... and youre not alone in this, ok? so james, all these prescriptions. are they covered? that...

Is more and more emergency room visits and more and more people dying. there has been a sevenfold increase in their related deaths in the past 15 years. that is horrific, so i think we have a very serious and silent epidemic on our hands. >> jonathan is not the only one who has been harmed by benzos. there is an entire community that has been affected by these drugs.>> i felt like my mind had snapped. that i had just gone crazy. >> this is a rare meet up in the suburbs of chicago. they come from...

Tool after tool. again and again. bringing you the broadest and most reliable network of service deale. after several years on klonopin she tried to quit but was plagued by extreme withdrawal symptoms. they only stopped when she was put on valium. another benzo. feeling let down by the medical community, she turned to the internet for help.

>> he was admitted to the hospital on suicide watch. it was during this time he was taken off all his benzo medication and prescribed an antipsychotic. after a few days he was discharged. a month later on may 4, 2017 he told his mother he was going around the corner for some snacks. >> 10 minutes later he was not home. called. where are you? i am on my way home. we know now he went to the local gun shop and bought a gone. >> friday there was a text that had come. he said that he loved us and to ...

His downward spiral did not begin until after he stopped taking klonopin. in his case cold turkey. something even the manufacturers advise against. >> what happens to your brain when you suddenly stop a benzo you have been taking for an extended period of time? >> if we stop all of a sudden it is a neurotransmitter thunderstorm that is going on in our brains. very uncomfortable feeling. restlessness, depression, heightened anxiety, motor tics, and people can even sees. some people even go suicid...

They first hit the scene in the 1960s and quickly became immortalized in mainstream culture. when volume was popped like candy by troubled housewives and men alike. >> volume works promptly to relieve anxiety and apprehension. side effects other than drowsiness, fatigue are rarely encountered. >> they will never know pain like this and it never stops. >> this is what thousands are seeing about benzos today. >> the tremors never stop.

Do and i listened to this guy because he had been there. >> it is crazy someone you had never met before. >> i was on the phone with a guy from australia and i am like okay. >> putting your health in the hands of a stranger seems risky to me, but the doctor prescribed method of weaning yourself off benzos over four weeks had not worked. she felt she had nowhere else to turn. >> often do you do this? >> i do it every night. i have gotten good at it now. in the beginning getting it figured out was...

Sadly -- >> your hands are tied and your heart sinks to know they think there was something wrong. there is nothing we will ever be able to do. >> my producer xander reached out to his doctor and the hospital system he works for. they expressed condolences to the wagner family but declined to comment. while i cannot talk with them there is an expert on the forefront of the phenomenon. this is a practicing stanford psychiatrist and has been prescribing medications like these for 25 years. >> what...

He gave us a card to a psychiatrist. >> the psychiatrist put him on volume. also a benzo. >> as the months dragged on he was prescribed for medication. >> tell me what is wrong. >> nothing seemed to help. his symptoms became more alarming. >> at one point she called me and i left work because he wrote a note. it was a suicide note. >> he said get the guns out of the house. i went in the closet and was looking at your gone. >> often was he having feelings of suicide?>> he had just said it keeps c...