I read a post about dalmane and was alarmed...my mother, sweet soul who has never even drank, went through witdrawals during a hospital stay years ago as they were not prescribed for her during her hospitalization..No one knew what was wrong and then they figured it out...she has a condition caused from a spider bite that screwed up her sleeping patterns...she did not take them for years until recently...She is getting old and has arthritis pretty bad and if she needs that to sleep, i am not going to get on to her...just be careful with dalmane