You must become addicted to it and not realize it. I can’t tell it has had any effect on me, as far as dependency. I’ve gone without it for a couple of weeks and had no problems. I still plan on coming off of it. I’ve come off many pain meds in the past cold turkey with no withdrawals, morphine, oxy, methodone etc. I was in a really bad accident and was using pain meds for many years, is colazapam different from pain meds? This is the first I’ve heard of the problems with this medication, when I changed Drs. Thanks for the info.