It's a pleasure having you here. After recovering from addiction, I kept going into counseling and psychology, and developed a love for addiction and relapse prevention counseling. The book, Stop the Chaos , is a culmination of what I've learned over 15 years' worth of experience in the addiction field. I tried to make something simple, yet giving the importance of the category that people in recovery or considering recovery need to know. The book is written in the workbook scheme so that people can work along with it, and actually do as well as learn educationally.
Social users are people who drink without the idea of becoming intoxicated.
They usually drink infrequently, and alcohol and drugs are not an important article to them. Abusers are people who use alcohol to become intoxicated. But when enough pressure is exerted, they will be able to stop on their own. The addict, or alcoholic, has a brain that's become hard-wired so that they have no control over their chemical use. They are literally powerless over their drug choice.