" However, it has long been known that diazepam and other similar drugs cause falls in the elderly, and such falls are often the precursor of death. It has also been suspected that, by some unspecified mechanism, diazepam (and sleeping draughts of all kinds) promote death. A "

― Theodore Dalrymple , A PINCH OF SALT: Why Doctors Don't Have All The Answers And It Never Stands To Reason