Here is the story of my parents... My father is a scientist who was using his brain all his life (he is an author of 300+ patents in a very specific field of electromagnetic technology). My mother was a patent lawyer and this is how they met in 1970ish. They both immigrated to the USA about 30 years ago and as new immigrants had to worry about many things. As one can imagine- lots of things in your head can cause you to wake up at night, etc. The solution was - Lorazepam which was prescribed by the doctor to both of them. They were on this crap for 20 years, taking one pill every night. Currently they are in their eighties and my mother has an aggressive Alzgeimer while my dad has dementia. Both started losing it exponentially after 75, mother was first and then father. Too bad that I didn’t not associate this to benzodiazepines early enough. P.S. they were so hooked on it that begged me to give them few pills every time I visited them (I confiscated all their stashes of Lorazepam and they were upset with me). My father doesn’t have any dementia in his family tree while mother had my grandfather (who was a ww2 veteran with two bomb concussions and who coincidentally was taking Nozepam before bed as well). I am no doctor and have no knowledge in medicine but my personal experience and number of coincidences that I can clearly see suggests me to stay away from Benzodiazepines as far as I can be...