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>> 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, yeah. >> very social. >> very. >> very caring about people. >> did he ever deal with any emotional i...

>> 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 didn't want to take a pill the rest of his life to go to sleep. so, he quit taking it. >> just cold turkey, didn't consult the doctor, just stopped taking it. >> yes. >> then what happened? >> it came on mild. he was like, i don't know why i'm depressed. then one week he started getting real anxious. he start saying his heart was racing. he thought maybe he was just having anxiety. so, he went back to the doctor, and the doctor gave...

>> 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 a 5:00 at night till 3:30 in the morning shift. when jonathan couldn't fall asleep when he got home...

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, our marriage. >> it was a day like any other day? >> yes. >> husband and wife would drive into manhatt...

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 couldn't 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 hearts. >> how would you sort of describe those early years? were they loving? were they exciting? >> y...