If you don't mind my asking, is your caution about benzodiazepines out of concern for the addiction potential, the long-term effects (e.g. dementia risk), or something else (or a combination)?
Addiction potential, which is contextually oxymoronic.
Everyone knows Xanax and other -zolams will turn you into a demented zombie after a few years of (ab?)use.
It's nearly impossible to kill yourself with it (benzos) alone, but combinations with any other depressant will synergize and potentiate the CNS depressant effect, until you black out and stop breathing.
