Originally Posted by
yeahgr8 
It's a ridiculous phrase and helps perpetuate the myth that the alcoholic lives under a bridge drinking cheap liquor out of a brown paper bag..
That is kind of where I am coming from. I feel like a lot of the reason I had trouble leaving my STBXAH is I thought of alcoholics as on the low rung of society. Drinking is so acceptable socially I think it just makes it that much more difficult to draw the line. Whereas with drugs just using is usually enough for most people to see it as a problem.