3is it normal to get drunk alone at 5am

You're trolling. Otherwise you wouldn't have said your friend is a heroin addict. You just want people to say, "Gee, whose advice do you take: your own girlfriend or a heroin addict?"

Saved everyone else the trouble.

Usually when people say that "it's 5 o'clock somewhere" they mean PM.

You just gave three different times you get drunk each morning: 5am,3am, and 8am. Which is it?

No... I really think you should see a therapist for your Alcoholism or at least sit in or a Alcohol support group. See if there's anything that you can connect to and relate to yourself from the things these people say. It may prove as a subtle or shocking wake up call, it depends on how you take it.

Strange. He/she goes to bed at 8pm (?too early) and gets up at 3am to drink. Maybe enough sleep but his/her drinking hours are unsociable and fucked up.
Not normal.
Why don't you go to bed later and drink if you have to, then get up at the normal time rather than having to drink in the middle of the night. This is not normal.
Please ignore your heroin addict 'friend' and may try to help them in the process.

Bull crap this story is totally made up rubbish.

Alcoholic much? Or just a retarded teenager?

who to believe hmm... your gf or heroin addicted friend...
How can you be unsure man ;)

... Seriously. Your going to believe a heroine addict over your ex-girlfriend??? Now that and your drinking at 3 am is just not normal.

Ok I'll give you advice from someone that's lived it (unlike the other posters).

1. You sound like a pretty typical teen or 20 something male having a good time.
I'm speculating at your age but since I've been there and lived it I think I'm pretty accurate with that guess.

I myself used to party a lot: smoke pot, drink like a fish, drop acid, do shrooms, even did some coke but never heroin. I first stated drinking when I was about 13. When I was in my 20's I've had a girl tell me I'm a hardcore alcoholic and she got scared but still wanted me. She was really scared because her father was an abusive drunk not that I did anything harmful or mean to her. I'm actually a blast when hammered lol.

I told her I'm young and having fun and can stop anytime I want (which was true) but I don't want to because it's a blast.

I'm a happy/fun drunk ;) Honestly one of the reasons I drank and partied so much was because I didn't want to deal with all the idiots in life that were continuously frustrating me. So rather than constantly being frustrated by the morons I started partying and having fun! I realized that if I dumbed myself down things were much more fun and I didn't get frustrated.

Another reason was it's just SO much fun to goof around being wasted!
I used to go out in public goofing around with girls or whatever being totally bombed and it's hysterical!
(Think Arthur, LOL).
My friends and I would have such a good time and that's all that really mattered.
We never hurt or was mean to anyone, we just had fun.

Well, I've had friends that are/were heroin addicts, coke heads, etc. and I can tell you most of them cannot stop. So in most cases your gf is probably right but only you know yourself well enough to know if you've got a problem or can stop at any time.

I'm an extremely unusual person in that I have incredible will power and would never allow myself to get addicted to any drug or alcohol. To prove it to myself I'd stop cold turkey and not allow myself to party for months, sometimes a year and more than once when I stopped my body would shake/tremble from the withdraws and of course I wasn't feeling to swift lol. So you know I was probably a serious drinker/partier.

Don't' kid yourself and find out who you are :

Try stopping partying for 9 months or 1 year and see if you can do it.

If you can't then you've got a problem and you should get help or it will ruin your life.
There are no 'buts' about this. If you really cannot stop it will ruin your life until you stop.
I'd guess most people would need help to stop but I'm not that kind of weak willed person so I never personally understood why my friends went to meetings/counselling etc. At the time I thought they just wanted attention and to fuck drug sluts.
Maybe I was wrong? Maybe some people really do need help stoping because they're weak.

If you go clean for a year and haven't done anything and want to party again then go for it but please don't drink and drive because you can kill someone (obviously). Truthfully partying isn't good for your health or intelligence and the longer you do it the worse off you'll be.

So I can understand why most people will tell you you've got serious problems and to seek help because in most cases they are correct. But honestly many guys do what you're doing and they ' grow ' out of it.

I actually got very bored of partying all the time and wanted to apply myself so I stopped.
It's been at least 15 years since I've smoked pot and I'd say at least 3 years since I've had a drink and when I was drinking it was with my gf and having wine or a few beers. Nothing serious or much.

But YES I do miss partying sometimes because it's so much fun to let loose and not give a shit about anything and just have fun, haha.

If I can achieve my personal goal of becoming a millionaire in the next couple years I might take a year off from work/everything and just travel the world partying it up LOL.

Dropping acid is crazy. You will open up doors and see things which you previously were unaware of.
In many ways people expand their consciousness when they party.

After that I'll probably find a good woman to build a life with.

every morning i drink a flask of mountain dew mixed with a little bit of a Jack Daniels. so i would say its normal... then again, im nowhere near being normal.

Believe your girl or the heroin addict?? Hmmmm that's a really tough one

Idiot.

Keith Moon lifestyle?