Originally Posted by
ladyscribbler 
Normal drinkers don't have near-death experiences due to alcohol.
-You go without a phone for 8 months but still manage to make it to the bar/liquor store every day.
It made the news near me: man had not paid his electric bill for months, and finally it was cut off in the summer. He got a generator, and ran that for his lights. For months. The next winter, he and his son died from carbon monoxide poisoning from the generator. He was well known at the bar, so his buddies there ponied up for his and his son's burial.
I'd say any one of your list would be a red flag. That his own peers try to keep him from drinking is especially telling.