This should be obvious. If you've never been prescribed benzos, their effect is to set your anxiety level to "taupe". If you experience a transitory trauma (e.g. if some lunatic breaks into your house), benzos have a legitimate very short term use case so you can calm down for a day or two and adjust yourself back to normal.
However, by their nature they are exceptionally addictive and prone to abuse. No one should ever be prescribed them unless their instinctual response is horror and ditching them at the first opportunity. Much the way that you'll use a fire extinguisher briefly if your house is on fire, but no one who likes playing with fire extinguishers should be allowed near one.
This should be obvious. If you've never been prescribed benzos, their effect is to set your anxiety level to "taupe". If you experience a transitory trauma (e.g. if some lunatic breaks into your house), benzos have a legitimate *very short term* use case so you can calm down for a day or two and adjust yourself back to normal.
However, by their nature they are exceptionally addictive and prone to abuse. No one should ever be prescribed them unless their instinctual response is horror and ditching them at the first opportunity. Much the way that you'll use a fire extinguisher briefly if your house is on fire, but no one who likes playing with fire extinguishers should be allowed near one.
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