Bottom is an AA word... I mean, in that context.
LOL I'm sure someone has said this before but this is exactly what turns people off from AA. They (not everyone) impose concepts of their recovery on you by scaring you with this terminology, maybe not intentionally but it happens. I'm not saying that people don't have a bottom, but people can fix their problems before something terrible happens. To suggest otherwise is, in essense, manipulating the person into believing Step #1. Its also a convenient way to dismiss the results of the program: "You didn't hit your bottom, thats why you relapsed/cant get sober."