[polyfractal]

Yeah, folks, don't do this.

Some drugs are relatively benign to quit cold turkey (a sizable percentage of people may run into irritating side effects like nausea, etc) but it won't kill you.

Other drugs like benzos can be fatal to quit without tapering. And other classes can induce serious side effects even when properly tapering, let alone quitting cold-turkey (e.g. hallucinations, psychosis, insomnia, etc etc).