some heroic individual on reddit summarized the video for those of us who can't stomach listening to jorp for an hour:
"JP had been taking benzodiazepines since late 2016, as a treatment for sleeplessness following what he describes as a bad reaction to something he ate [ed: this seems to be the apple cider incident described on Joe Rogan's podcast], per medical guidelines at 0.25mg 2xday [ed: presumably clonazepam, this is a standard dose]. This treatment seemed to work at the time, so he continued with it.
At some unspecified time, he started noticing symptoms of weakness, detachment, and anhedonia. At some unspecified later time, he inferred that these were side-effects of the benzos.
At some point around April-May 2019, he began experiencing increased anxiety, which he associates with dealing with his wife's illness. As a result, he requests for an increase in his benzo dose. [ed: apparently up at some point to 4mg/day; this is a high dose]
He reports feeling increased anxiety from this point, for which reason he stops taking the benzos and starts taking ketamine [ed: his daughter later clarifies this was on recommendation of a psychiatrist]. He reports having been off the benzos for about a week and that "this turns out to have been a bad idea" [ed: presumably this did not help the anxiety and he resumed benzo use at that point, but it's not clearly stated].
He tried to taper down the dosage of his benzos [ed: presumably this was after resuming, so that he first stopped cold turkey, then resumed and tried to taper; it's not stated whether a physician is involved in this]. He reports intolerable anxiety and restlessness as resulting from this.
By August 2019 his wife had recovered but he was still wrestling with these issues. Sometime after then he goes to "a clinic on the east coast" for help getting off the benzos. He reports expecting a "multi-day" procedure for getting off the benzos and through withdrawal and being unsatisfied by the clinic's recommendation that they replace clonazepam with another benzo [ed: presumably valium] and use other "sedative-like drugs" to help manage symptoms during the taper [ed: so presumably not benzos; probably trazodone or quetiapine for sleep; that sort of thing]. He reports that since the benzos are causing the symptoms, he's unsatisfied with an approach that still had him on benzos.
In November-December 2019 he's hospitalized in Toronto for related / the same difficulties [ed: the specific event leading to hospitalization is not stated]. [ed: it's not clear whether he had continued the east coast clinic's protocol up to this point or had abandoned it.]
In December 2019 his daughter and her husband remove him from this hospital [ed: he reports not remembering this period, and later reports that this was against physician's orders] and bring him to a clinic near Moscow that sedate him [ed: to unconsciousness] for nine days with propofol. He reports complications of nine days of delirium following waking from this, and pneumonia which he'd had since the Toronto hospitalization.
He reports being extremely angry with his daughter at this point, as he has no recollection of agreeing to this treatment, while she explains that the whole family, including him, had discussed it and agreed to it, but that his memory of this was impaired. She reports the Russian doctor not understanding why they'd brought him there.
At this point he reports no longer being on the benzos, and having relief from the restlessness that was a side-effect of their use, but having general impairment of sensory, motor, and cognitive function. He is transferred to a rehabilitation clinic in Moscow for two weeks to help rehab through these difficulties.
They then move to Florida, and he reports that the anxiety and some of the restlessness recur at this point. He is given some medication here, but it's not stated what or what the circumstances of its prescription were.
In June 2020 he moves to Serbia to enter care in a clinic there [his daughter explains: to treat the "neurological damage done by the benzos"]. They adjust the unspecified medication he was given in Florida. He reports finding relief at this point.
He then discusses questions of responsibility and trust in his work, and remarks that he found it noteworthy how much support he got from people in spite of the stigma associated with drug problems, that everyone has difficulties so one cannot realistically expect to find help from people who don't, that he's always included himself among the population of people he's speaking about who need to work on their own personal responsibility and moral improvement, and that anyone ought to judge for themselves whether to trust his work based on what he's previously said and done.
They then discuss a perceived difference between American and Russian approaches to treating these issues. They report that the American doctors wanted to treat an "underlying disorder" [ed: it's not stated what they thought this to be, JP and MP clarify only that it's something that "doesn't exist... probably doesn't exist"] rather than treating the benzo dependency, whereas the Russian doctors treated the benzo dependency [ed: but on the history they give, the Western doctors did try to treat the benzo dependency, just not in the way JP/MP wanted/expected, so it's unclear what they mean here]."
