"People's unwillingness to deduce the particular from the general is only matched by their willingness to infer the general from the particular."
In other words...
When people are told there is a characteristic very common in the population they rarely believe it applies to them (or people they know), but they are quite ready to believe the characteristics they observe in themselves (and others close to them) are quite common in the population.
Would you say that people who believe there is only one way to get sober are demonstrating a form of that phenomenon? I would.