MY OBSERVATION IS THAT A LOT OF OLDER FOLKS SEEM TO BE OVERMEDICATED: Continued Questions on Benzodiazepine Use in Older Patients. “A study in this month’s JAMA Psychiatry reports that among 65- to 80-year-old Americans, close to 9 percent use one of these sedative-hypnotics, drugs like Valium, Xanax, Ativan and Klonopin. Among older women, nearly 11 percent take them.”