I've been using temazepam for years. Sleep is more important than any hypothetical concern about dependency and addiction. I'm on a stable dose (addicts increase the dose), it still works (no tolerance concerns), so who would want to mess with that? I've got PTSD, and without temazepam, I do "skipping stone" sleep. Barely asleep, and I wake again, and drift off and wake again, all night through.

I've seen medical reports of temazepam remaining effective after seventeen years. I think it matters as much why you're taking it as it does the nature of the drug. People with chronic pain use opiates to function, not to get high. Same thing, sort of.

Lar