Clonazepam, brand-name Klonopin, is a benzodiazepine (tranquilizer) used to treat anxiety and panic disorder.
(Adam Ford – Disrn) Popular author and intellectual Jordan Peterson has spent a harrowing number of weeks trying to detox from a physical dependence on the benzodiazepine clonazepam and has had a severe “paradoxical” reaction to the drug, made worse when trying to remove it.
[The drug] gives him “endless irresistible restlessness bordering on panic and inability to sit still” and “made him suicidal,” his daughter, Mikhaila, revealed in a video update Friday.
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“Finally, dad is on the mend, even though there is a lot of physiological damage he needs to recover from,” she said.