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Can alcohol cause sleep walking?
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Sleep Walking: There are many things that can trigger sleep walking and excess alcohol is one of the possible triggers.
Answered 7/29/2012
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Yes: In susceptible people, any short-acting sedative-hypnotic drug can cause sleepwalking. The more rapidly absorbed the drug, the greater the chance for things like sleep-walking, talking, eating, driving or even having sex while asleep. The newer "z" drug sleeping pills - ambien, sonata, (zaleplon) lunesta, commonly cause this, and alcohol will make it much worse.
Answered 3/26/2013
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