I feel for the patients that actually need a benzo to lead a normal, functioning lifestyle. Due to the actions of abusers it seems the public is starting to distrust medication.
A similar situation has already played out with people who deal with chronic pain and opiods. Stricter laws may reduce abuse but they have a chilling effect on prescribing physicians.
I don't think the laws even reduce abuse. If anything, they move people from prescribed, professionally manufactured drugs with some degree of monitoring to the black market.