[know.your.why]

People do use them for sleeping:

Sure they do. People use cocaine for staying awake too. Perhaps you're missing the point. Benzos are highly addictive and withdrawals from prolonged abuse can kill. Plenty of elderly women are addicted to Valium. I know one. Shes in a nut hut last I heard. Probably dead.

[Chickensoup]

Some people addict to benzos

Some people addict to alcohol.

Many do not.

The addict problems are obvious. The normative occasional users are not.

And there are many.

Working with this issue of sleep I wonder how many were terrified from using occasional medication and over 6 months or a year in a great sleep deficit. Chronic poor sleep over time particularly in the elderly can lead to functional decline and at time psychosis.