I think it might partly be the fact that he’s blaming others/outside circumstances for his problems, when he’s always championed individual choice etc.
I almost feel sorry for the guy though. From what I’ve read benzo withdrawal is maybe the worst drug withdrawal you can go through, worse than opioids.
The serious issue in this story is that this guy is a drama queen, so when he goes on Joe Rogan’s show and claims that apple cider vinegar almost killed him it’s kind of funny; but he has millions of clueless fans and some of them take similar anti-anxiety medications, so if they are inspired to follow in his footsteps and quit them cold turkey – which you are not supposed to do for this class of medication – then they may put themselves in danger.
The details of his ‘addiction’ also scan as complete bullshit, if you take klonopin as prescribed you can take it ~forever. Rehab = when you get your 30 day supply and run through it in a weekend. Klonopin isn’t even that fast acting, less abuse potential, xanax is fastest, so I don’t know wtf he was doing.
My manic-depressive coworker went off his meds - had the best summer of his life - then killed himself at the end when a bunch of bad stuff happened at once.
They have been called “the men who plundered Europe”: a group of cowboy traders, seasoned tax lawyers and mathematical whizz kids who are alleged to have conspired in the heart of the City of London to siphon at least €60bn in taxpayers’ money from the state coffers of several EU countries.
In Britain, the so-called “cum-ex” scandal, named after the complex derivatives juggling act employed, gained little attention amid the frenzied debate around the UK’s departure from the European Union when the fraud scheme was discovered in 2017.