Can it or has it been used for UX testing? Having a way to "reset" people for interface testing would be useful. Preferably without side effects, of course.

Drugging people with hypnotics to test your shitty UI? This is the most HN thing I’ve seen in a long time ;)

bingo^

short/longterm memories will be shot full of holes when on benzos for a while. even one night of benzo usage and you will forget most of the night, mix in a beer by accident and the whole night will be erased.

Benzos have anxiolytic effects. I think OPs premise is a drug that has no psychoactive effects (apart from the no long term memory thing)

Most people recognize that as Ambien

https://popula.com/2018/07/22/the-ambien-diaries/

Ambien is not a benzo. The bizarre behaviour it causes seems to be related to sleepwalking, which is not a common side effect of benzodiazepines.

I met someone who was on a clinical trial for Ambien. He'd pass out almost immediately, but first he'd see crazy wild hallucinations. But only for like 15 seconds to a minute.

When it was finally released on the market, the dosage was a fraction of what he had take in his clinical trial.

I think you have to feel really crazy adventurous or desperate for money, to become a guinea pig for new drugs, that mess with your brain ...

kind of, but not exactly.

benzos wipe out most of your ability to inhibit behavior along with your ability to form memories. it practically guarantees that you're a mess.

your concentration goes to shit, along with most of your higher functions... at least at the quantity that it takes to make you black out.

there are a lot of stories about what happens when the "xan man" (the xanax overdose state) comes out to play. most of them are bad.

Take enough “xan’s” and you’re describing the same effects