yep thats why they and benzos are preferred, its relatively hard to OD on them in comparison to earlier hypnotics like barbiturates.
With barbs people went to sleep and simply didn’t wake up again.
In the early 1970s there was a similar economic depression to what we have now, and making them controlled substances (and warning doctors and NHS staff over the risks), changing the sorts of drugs prescribed for mental health issues and gas from town gas (with CO) to North Sea Gas actually decreased the suicide rate in England by loads…
