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You are better youll come back and not being depressed and not having to struggle every day is truly a gift. its truly all that matters. >> what do you do? where do we go from this point? >> desperate for answers, debbie accompanied her son back to his doctors office. >> im in there with jonathan, and the doctor looks at us and hes sitting in this little round stool, and he turns around to us and says "theres nothing i can do for you. youre in xanax withdrawals." at point jonathan and me, were s...

>> the wagners scoured the yellow pages in search of legal help. i want to speak to one of the lawyers who consulted on jonathans case. >> hello? >> hi. allen barrenholets is a lawyer specializing in personal injury law. >> i think jonathans case was -- i thought there was something seriously wrong. but the reality was that if the decedent was not survived by a spouse or by children, the damages on the wrongful death were capped at $300,000. and to finance a medical malpractice case, the cost co...

Wagner. like chrissy, jonathans downward spiral didnt 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 that youve been taking for an exend theed peri extended period of time. >> if we stop all of a sudden, its like an excited neurotransmitter thunderstorm going on in our brain. its a very uncomfortable feeling, wrestlessness, motor ticks, and people even seize. som...

Principle. after a month, he stopped taking xanax, also cold turkey. >> all of a sudden he cant function. >> cant sleep. cant eat. shaking. crying. >> at that point, were you thinking that it could be the medication that hes on or youre just thinking hes lost it? >> we had no idea. >> we had no idea. were like jonathan, whats wrong? >> their sons transformation left the wagners stunned. just a few months before, jonathans life was full of promise. >> this is who jonathan was right before it all ...

>> these videos are hard to watch. >> and i was a productive member of society. >> but could they reveal something we all should know about this fda-approved class of medication people have been taking for decades? tom and debbie wagner had zero concerns when their then 35-year-old son jonathan was first prescribed klonopin in march of 2016. can you give us a sense of what jonathan was like? >> jonathan was very loving, caring person. he loved being out with his friends. >> super social. >> oh, ...

>> jonathan took one bill every day as prescribed for seven months straight, and it worked until he decided he could get to sleep on his own. >> he decided that he didnt want to take a pill the rest of his life to go to sleep. so, he quit taking it. >> just cold turkey, didnt consult the doctor, just stopped taking it. >> yes. >> then what happened? >> it came on mild. he was like, i dont know why im depressed. then one week he started getting real anxious. he start saying his heart was racing. ...

>> right. >> we all have ups and downs, but by early 2016, jonathan was enjoying a new lease on life. several years removed from a divorce, he was saving money to help launch a family dream, their own food truck. >> so, jonathan moved in here. he was saving money, and he was so excited. >> jonathan worked as a floor manager at a casino, trying to save money and still have a little time for a few rounds of golf with his buddies. in february 2016, he was offered a night shift. >> so, jonathan took...

Were they loving? exciting? >> yes. they were -- we were in love. ecstatic. >> from there, marriage, a house, a son jonathan in 1983. >> how would you describe her as a mom. >> sn. >> she was devoted. >> life was good. each as the years went by, each with the demands of work and family, steven said he and jody made time for each other. like that last summer sunday in september of 1992. steven said it was supposed to be a date night. >> no idea that would be the most critical day in our lives, ou...

The views seemed limitless. >> it sort of framed by trees. but you could look down and to the right and see the view of the george washington bridge. >> reporter: what they couldnt see from here, of course, was the future. had they caught even a glimpse of what was to come, surely they would have abandoned this place forever. stephen and jody met in the late 70s in georgia. he was in the army, a bookworm who loved the civil war. she taught history. theirs was a meeting first of minds. then heart...