The VA stopped prescribing ALL benzodiazepines because they put them in the same class as opioids, and don't want to kill service men/women who want to take even small doses for minor depression or anxiety (that includes those of us who experience panic attacks). Through Medicare, none of the primary care psychiatrists or NP's I've been to in CA will prescribe them either. I've saved up a few for when I do have a panic attack, can't even use them up for anxiety attacks, but until I leave CA, I suppose I'll have to do without. I'd been taking them, as needed-0.5 mg since I got back from Vietnam, but for now I'm cut off. I'm treated as if I'm a drug addict. I'm well beyond retirement age, have PD, and yet I still have to work full time to survive and have to hide my PD from my co-workers for fear of losing my job. As my cognitive abilities decline, and I've noticed they have been, which makes me edgy and even paranoid while on the job, I may just have to check out by my own hand. I refuse to be a burden to anyone. The government wants vet's such as me to die before giving us the help so many of us need and deserve. I'm doing the best I can for now without medication. I'm grateful for having studied Chinese martial arts for the past sixty years--doing Tai Chi regularly definitely helps to keep my illness from progressing. Without Klonopin and Xanax, I'm facing enormous challenges every day. At least I'm grateful for being old.