Pretty sure all the hoopla with the benzos is more due to politics than science. Any meds now that have addictive actions are under scrutiny and are blamed for the addiction problems and the switch back to heroin. It's as if politicians can't understand the difference between taking something for a medical reason and taking medication for its high, two different reasons, and not a reason to persecute doctors. Doctors are liable for malpractice if they prescribe too much, or at all. There is a reason they've been prescribed for so long they often work. They did have a sedative effect on me but they also made me moody so I didn't like them, but almost always when I was in the hospital they put me on them. Because my symptoms bothered them.