I wish I knew. The pharmaceutical companies and the doctors need to be held accountable. Making someone cold turkey a benzodiazepine is heinous. The doctor tortured your son and got away with it. Maybe someday we’ll be taken seriously. In the mean time good luck and God bless.

I'm so sorry for your son's tragic experience.

Whereas it's clearly a result of improper management of his Klonopin dosage, I'm afraid I can't see any way to attribute the outcome to the medicine (often very useful) itself but rather to its egregious misuse in misprescribing.

I personally know second hand of a woman who died because of her personal misuse of klonopin (contrary to what she was ordered), but that too I don't see as attributable to the manufacturer of the medication but the patient's negligence.

However, I most certainly do see that negligent psychiatrist responsible for your son's care, as liable for a slam-dunk malpractice suit.

(I took klonopin for a long time, and from the first day it was prescribed my psychiatrist gave me careful, emphatic instructions on rules for its consumption - especially, the need for its conscientious GRADUAL titration up or down as indicated.

I think this is absolutely standard practice and you should be able to find responsible psychiatrists to back you up.

(The woman I know of who died, went into "status epilepticus" which killed her.)

My deepest sympathies to you and others who have suffered from professional misprescribing of this powerful - but often very useful - medication when prescribed according to the manufacturer's cautionary notes.

Unfortunately, many attorneys don’t take medical cases as they may have a limit on what the liability in that state can be. In other words, some states put a cap on the amount a client can win.Secondly, they know will be a long and expensive lawsuit. Now as a nurse, I can tell you there can be a tremendous amount of things that go wrong and it never gets corrected.

My husband will never take klonopin again because it was hell getting off of it! And he had been on fentanyl patches for multiple neck and back surgeries. It was easier getting off the pain meds than the klonopin- and that was a very rough road. And the bad thing is (that was almost 20 yrs ago) he has other health issues that seem only answer at this point is klonopin. He won’t take it tho. We have found CBN which is a cannabinol oil that works pretty well. He just develops a tolerance too quickly and we have to keep increasing his dose. If he could only grow and make his own, it sure would save some money.

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Hello Elizabeth
It's a trip reading your story because 5 years ago the same thing happened to me when I seen my 13th Doctor in 3 years at this mental health facility in Sacramento
I was prescribed clonazepams what does the generic form of Klonopins in 2004 and as I was seeing my 13th Doctor she looked at my folder and said oh how long have you been on Klonopins
I told her since 2004 that's the only medicine out of the 30 that you guys have prescribed me that works for me
She said well you should only been on that for 12 weeks
She never once told me she was taking me off of my medicine
Now mind you this is 2018
They have no regard for our lives or our minds
The adverse effects of taking clonazepam for 14 has affected my entire life
I think we have to get a whole lot of people together in order for them to take it serious just one or two of us isn't going to help I don't think because I've called several and they didn't want to help me either

I an so sorry!!! Every good doctor knows you have to taper off these meds! I am on klonepin at this time for sleep. I am a certified health and life coach and I help clients with depression and anxiety. If you or anyone is in crisis, there is a crisis text line you can use! They have counselors 24/7. Text 741741.

The benzodiazepine Coalition is someone u can contact. There has been a lawsuit but it only addressed failure to warn! Not the right direction. The Supreme Court struck down the suit based on you cannot sue them for failure to warn.
They have information on their site as to how to file. I hope this helps u