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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 suicidal.>> she did not stop taking it suddenly, but she did experience these kind of withdrawal symptoms....

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 benzo's 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 benzo's 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 overwhelming because i dealt with a lot of math that i could not grasp at the time. what i do is i...

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 is the proper way to administer or prescribe benzo's? >> they are a great tool short- term for anxi...

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 crossing his mind and he did not know why.