alcohol and prescription drugs

I have a family member who drinks every night and all weekend long he is a diabetic taking 2 1000 mg of metformin,10mg's of zetia and high blood pressure pills I believe that altogether he takes about 11 pills a day.  He does not tell his doctor that he drinks. After consuming the liquor he can eat everything in sight he is not over weight but the morning after he has no recollection and what he say's or does the night before. Can you please tell me what effects this is having on him.

[Roger Gould, M.D.]

You are describing alcholic behavior which has its own terrible effects on his body and his mind, and his life. It also makes his diabetes uncontrollable, and that puts him at great risk for all of the diabetic complications...Your family member is killing himself slowly...it may be that he has not accepted his diabetes as a medical condition, and this has exacerbated his drinking.