I'm taking them because I've just done a buprenorphine detox. I cut off dead at 24mg about a month ago and managed to collect pretty much all the meds you can throw at opiate withdrawal to get through it (lofexidine, buscopan, promethazine, pregabalin, zopiclone, zolpidem, etizolam, diazepam, melatonin, quitiapine), and I have a diazepam script at 25mg on maintenance whilst I do the detox. The diazepam script is going to be chopped to 20mg in 10 days time, then 1mg every week from there. I've stopped taking all meds for the withdrawal except I'm still using sleep meds (quitiapine, zopiclone, melatonin, etizolam).
The issue is just being able to cut out primarily the etizolam ASAP because otherwise I'm going to gain a benzo tolerance above my script. Fucking with an anti-psychotic like quitiapine carries it own set of risks whoever you are but it will sedate me without really carrying any risk of physical dependance other than making it difficult to sleep without it now I've been using it to get me though the detox. The zopiclone runs out tonight anyway and the melatonin I am happy to take for a more extended period anyway as it carries very low risk. The etizolam needs to stop going on top of the other meds pronto so I don't boost my tolerance above my script even though I'm only using it at night. Basically the long and short of it is that I've used a wide variety of meds to deal with coming off such a high dose and I've slowly removed all of them but I've hit a bit of a wall trying to remove the sleep meds.
Tonight will be 200mg quitiapine, 4mg melatonin, 15mg zopiclone and probably 3mg etizolam. Basically I need to stop fucking with all that shit other than the melatonin in the next week or so otherwise I'm stepping in to the territory of creating another addiction out of the back of dealing with the opiates. It's complicated.....gah. If I start using above my benzo script for much longer it's going to complicate it when the reduction kicks in. I guess the next week or so is going to be a real test, I need to move to natural sleep soon otherwise I'm going to be on sketchy ground again.
Anyway.....I've cleared the fucking opiates which is a start. On naltrexone now as well (which I know is technically an opiod blah blah but it's a blocker that has no activity at the opiate receptor and is actually thought to help kickstart the body's endogenous system as well somehow)
. I really do urge you to try to cut out the etiz as soon as you can, from personal experience. 
