According to Dr Ebrahim, who is the medical director at the London Sleep Centre and co-author of the latest review, published in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, alcohol disrupts sleep.
Drinking alcohol before going to bed may help you go to sleep more quickly but it disrupts the sleep cycle and results in less time spent in the rapid eye movemement phase (REM sleep).
This is the phase in which we do our dreaming and so you may not feel as rested after a night's sleep.
Alcohol also results in your sleep being fragmented by interrupting it in the second half of the night and you may wake up dehydrated.
Using alcohol to help you get to sleep quicker may work in the short term but will ultimately result in insomnia if resorted to too often.
Try a mug of hot chocolate instead!
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