I agree with the above posters. It is a slightly different experience knowing your loved one is out boozing at the bar legally, and buying his drug from a pretty bartender, than the one who is at the dopehouse surrounded by felons and getting his drug from someone who could kill you if they wanted to. IME although alcoholics and addicts are similar, there are differences. I feel that its like geometry, a square will always be and has to be a rectangle, but that does not mean that every rectangle is a square.