Benzos are highly demonized and well-deserving of the warnings when you consider that quitting cold turkey can be fatal. I don’t think there is any safe way to use benzos regularly, even short term. However, they do have remarkable therapeutic potential for insomnia and panic attacks when used on a strictly as-needed basis. A major problem is not that people lack the self control to only use benzos once or twice a month, but that too many doctors fail to stress this when prescribing them. So many patients and doctors these days have absolutely no concept of pharmaceuticals not needing to be used every day.