If a Person Was Taking 4mg of Klonopin and Then Stopped Cold Turkey What Would Be the Effects?

Question by : If a person was taking 4mg of Klonopin and then stopped cold turkey what would be the effects?
Would your brain just completely shut down?
Specifically what types of brain disorders would occur? Do you know of anyone that has done this?

Best answer:

Answer by Danielle Spargo
No, you’d experience extreme rebound anxiety, but 4mg/day is not a large enough dose to cause life threatening withdrawal effects.

Anxiety, sleeplessness, restlessness etc. would be your only withdrawal effects.

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