Can drugs affect sleep?

Can drugs affect sleep?

Chris Idzikowski (Director of the Edinburgh Sleep Centre) gives expert video advice on: What lifestyle choices can affect sleep?; Can certain foods make you drowsy?; Can alcohol make you sleepy? and more...

Recreational drugs are like medicines except they're not licensed so they also have big impacts on sleep. Taking cocaine is a huge disturber. If somebody's taking cocaine they're likely to then take sleeping pills to wind themselves down and so onto anphetimines, all over the place.