Binge drinking and being an alcoholic are completely different. An alcoholic can't go with out alcohol in their system they are hooked on it and need it to function if they stop drinking they can have seizures and it can result in death. Binge drinking is where someone will say they're have a couple of drinks on a night out/weekend and they can't stop drinking until they're paralytic and they're likely to repeat the same thing every time they hit the drink but they don't rely on alcohol and they can go days/weeks without it but they find it hard to quit after a couple of drinks.In my understanding of it and I believe a binge drinker is alcoholism