When patients take alprazolam, when drinking alcohol may be highly inhibited respiration, cerebral nervous system, resulting in drowsiness, deep coma, shallow coma and other problems, which can threaten the life and health of patients, so you must not drink alcohol when taking alprazolam. Alprazolam belongs to the benzodiazepine class of sedative and sleeping drugs, mainly have anti-anxiety, antidepressant, inhibit the activity of the cerebral cortex function, play the role of sedation, sleep, improve sleep. Alcohol also inhibits the functional activity of the cerebral cortex, and when these two medications are combined they result in an enhanced, synergistic effect on each other. It may sedate and inhibit respiration, which may easily cause the patient to experience respiratory arrest or fall into a shallow coma or drowsiness, so it is important to avoid alcohol intake when taking Alprazolam.