Long-term user of benzos who never took Ambien here: the way people describe it, Ambien is dangerous. Long half-life benzos like Klonopin and Valium are not. I

Long-term user of benzos who never took Ambien here: the way people describe it, Ambien is dangerous. Long half-life benzos like Klonopin and Valium are not. I only had a mild hazy kick the first two times I took Klonopin (and I was starting on two or three other meds at once); since then, I've used anything from 4mg to .25mg and never had trouble titrating either up or down. I don't have much of an anxiety problem if I skip my Klonopin altogether (it destabilizes my manic-depression, for which I'm stuffed with medications but titrate Klonopin for marginal effect; but nothing the day I stop Klonopin, only if I'm at ~2mg and skip it for a day. The literature is slowly catching up too. A while ago there was a full moral panic about benzodiazepines, but I feel like this is part of the full moral panic about psych drugs (some of which is justified, because people (and sometimes unethical docs) are looking for answers in drugs that often aren't there.)