The drug addiction benzodiazepine alertness decreases and produces a slurred speech, poor coordination, confusion and slow breathing. These drugs can cause a person to be alternately depressed and anxious. Some people experience memory loss, making wrong decisions, moments of loss of attention and brutal changes of emotional state. The elderly may seem insane, can speak slowly and have difficulty thinking and to understand others.

Falls that may occur as a result bring bone fractures, especially hip. Benzodiazepines, although less toxic than barbiturates, cause disinhibition, ataraxia, dysarthria, and errors in performance. All sedative hypnotics produce cumulative clinical effects (with the repetition of the dose), additive or synergistic supraditivo (when given with another class of sedatives or alcohol) and residual (after completion of treatment). In the long run damage the sexual functions.