How many hours should you wait?

You know
how some people have to take medications once a day but they love to
drink........

How many hours after you took the meds can you drink alchohol(say you take the
meds at night) Or how many hours do you have to wait to drink after taking meds?
Since your doctor is paid to make sure he takes good care of you, it's his job
to answer that question as he has to deal with the problems if you do it wrong.

so... ask your doctor...
you can also ask your pharmacist when you pick up the medicine, or call him back
later and ask him...

you see, how long you have to wait depends on the medication, and how much it
might interact with alcohol. That varies greatly from one medicine to another.
cw
Insufficient information:
1. What's the medication in question? It has a half-life meaning how long in
hours before half of it is out of your system. Need to know that.
2. How much are you planning to drink usually? For people who drink only 1-3
drinks, it's usually ok and safe with most medications. But people who drink
heavily will be interfering with the meds and maybe inviting disaster. Quit
drinking for a few days, or if you can't, ask your doc to give you a different
medication if one is available.

In other words, not a good question for Yahoo Answers, because it asks for
medical knowledge that only doctors have.
Depends on what the medication/s is/are.

Some are absolutely contraindicated to mix with alcohol. Please speak to your
pharmacist about it.
I take medicine at 9:00 pm and 9:00am do not drink unless I don't take med's
what do you take.? usually on the bottle it will say do not drink with alchohol
it can really mess with the brain your sleep !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
wash the pills down with alcohol