What we’ve said about Alcohol

“alcohol messes up your sleep quality. And usually the body will metabolize through it partway through the night. And then that will cause the paradoxical effect of awakening in the middle of the night and having trouble falling back asleep”

“If you have one drink in a night, it significantly impacts your sleep score. You don't need to be drinking six or seven drinks and really feel the hangover. Even just one drink has a significant impact on sleep architecture”

“I think alcohol requires a specific call out because it often feels relieving to people. But the reality is it actually messes up the sleep quality in test animals, even for a couple of weeks after one dose of alcohol”

“you take that and take them and you're able to fall asleep right away so sometimes subjectively people think that it's helping their sleep but the it affects your sleep quality drastically”

“I do think the subjective experience of cannabis and alcohol being effective is generally more about treating symptoms, not treating, suppressing symptoms that are interfering with sleep rather than helping the sleep itself”

“Alcohol, you know, Z-drugs, benzos, cannabis, I would all put in the same category as things that make people feel as if they're getting better or sleeping when they're not really necessarily getting better or sleeping”

“Important for me not to lose therapeutic alliance by being like, you're wrong. They're terrible for sleep. I explained to them, it's like, you're right. So it does help you fall asleep”

“Other things, alcohol and marijuana massively negatively impact sleep architecture. It's worth telling patients, why don't you try going off of it for a little bit”