When do you consider someone an alcoholic?

When they start going to meetings.

When their drinking interferes with their life. Oddly enough, alcoholics don't realize this is happening most of the time. They are very good at justifying what they do. That's called d.e.n.i.a.l. (don't even know I am lying). Like "I can stop anytime I want to", or calling off work or school because of hangover, drinking instead of studying, repeating themselves incessantly, drinking until they puke instead of just having a couple to take the edge off, spending money they planned to do something else with, and hurting their friends and family.

when they need and breathe alcohol . when the first thing they think of upon waking and going 2 sleep is alcohol, when there life is unmanageable due to drinking alcohol.

When they can't have just one. And when they are the only person drunk in a group.

I don't think it's alcoholic to drink before noon or alone.

When they want to drink everytime !

Not for partys its a bit alcoholic but not so much cuz they not addicted.

Just social!

when they drink everday from the time they wake up untill the time they go to bed...

dont be an alcoholic someone i know is an alco and she got tounge cancer and is still fighting

When they keep drinking long after they are totally drunk and it happens alot. When they have to drink to avoid getting the shakes. Blackouts are a big sign.

When they start drinking alone in the early hours of the morning.

When they're drinking 8 beers in the morning just to fight off the shakes and they're still sober...

when your out of college and drinking is constantly negatively affecting your life and you won't/can't change your ways