After taking sleeping pills, it is not recommended to drink alcohol, because after drinking a small amount of alcohol will make the cortex of the brain in an active state of excitement, just the opposite of the sleeping pills to make the brain sedation, the two to offset each other, the effect of sleeping pills will not be so good. Eat sleeping pills is mainly for sedation and sleep, and excessive alcohol, there is the possibility of stimulating the poisoning of sleeping pills, a large number of alcohol on the central nervous system initially for the role of excitation, and then will turn to inhibit the role of the initial symptoms of excitement, the later manifested in the inhibition of the symptoms. After drinking alcohol, drowsiness and other manifestations, sleeping pills have an inhibitory effect on the cerebral cortex, so that after taking sleeping pills, and then drink a lot of alcohol will produce a double inhibition, so that people’s reaction is slow, lethargy, or even coma, severe may involve the respiratory and circulatory centers, leading to slow breathing, blood pressure drop, easy to cause the patient to go into shock, or even death.