I did not sleep tonight neither the night before that. And I used to take all sort of meds to provide me with the necessary rest.
I'm now facing this problem after having quit opiates and benzos 1 year and 1 month ago.
Thanks to an excellent advice from a very dear fellow here in Bluelight I learned that some other variables are keeping me awake so I'll resolve this without having to take so many meds. This is due to years and years of abuse, literally more than 2 decades and I'm 45 years old for God's sake.
The reason I'm telling this is due to a situation that could not be sustained anymore as I had to take these meds to get me though the the night. Very soon I'd start to compromise my health due to the tolerance resulted from all of these years of abuse.
I realized that I could not take meds including opiates for the rest of my life. As simple as that. As I said I did it for over 20 years but relationships were being affected, my memory was getting effect, not to mention my liver. And the amount of pills I was taking was insane. Eventually you'll need too much to fully meet my goals.
Have you tried melatonin ? Valerian ? I've had good results with melatonin personally during my year of clean-time in 2014-2015. There's really no catch with that drug.

It simply made me feel tired asif I was getting tired naturally, which I guess makes sense because it's the sleeping hormone that is naturally produced by the brain. It doesn't make me feel 'drowsy' or 'drugged', or like I had taken anything at all really. It also never seemed to affect the quality of my sleep (if anything, it improved it). All it did was make my dreams a little more vivid, which also makes sense because melatonin gets converted into n,n-DMT in the brain, which I believe to be responsible for dreams in general. Don't quote me on that last bit though as I'm not a 100% on that.
There is (of course, or I wouldn't be suggesting this to you) absolutely 0 abuse potential with melatonin, and there is also no dependency with this drug, I also never noticed any tolerance issues with it. It's my preferred (risk/drawback-free) sleep-aid. I should note though that it's not powerful enough for a lot of people, but IMO that's because they are used to sleep meds just knocking them out. With melatonin you still have to 'put in the effort' of actually going to sleep. What worked well for me was reading a book after having taken my melatonin. If melatonin on its own really doesn't do the job for you, you could try combining it with valerian root; which also has pretty much 0 risks/drawbacks.
You can also go for the sedative anti-histamines, but I don't like those. They make me feel very drowsy and kinda dysphoric and the drowsiness often lasts well into the next day. It also feels like it messes with the quality of my sleep, leaving me more tired the next day than I should be for the amount of sleep I've gotten.
Hope that helped a bit.. ?
OT: A bunch of oxy, around 240mg that is active right now, of which 120mg was taken whole (so XR), and 12mg bromazepam.
Going to take 27mg flurazepam in the late evening (it's 8pm right now, so not for another few hours). Also took 2mg alprazolam way earlier today, but I doubt that's still working at all.
Time to enjoy this nod. Wish I had some weed to synergize. If I smoke weed on opiates+benzos I get the most euphoric, intense and uncontrollable nods. On the other hand, they make me lose a lot of the high because I'm barely conscious when I take that combo..
Peace, sweet DC-buddies.
