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How to use the word abstinence in a Sentence?

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Especially for the liver transplant clinics or alcohol abuse clinics, it's important for them to recognize this rare condition, because they're the ones that monitor alcohol abstinence, and as you see in this case, the lab test results with urinary auto-brewery syndrome might be misinterpreted.

– Kenichi Tamama

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Neonatal abstinence syndrome is one of the most heartbreaking parts of the opioid crisis.

– Alex Azar

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

In the past week I had some cake and I also had my first glass of wine after 10 years of abstinence, i was really warm inside after only a few sips. That felt good.

– Dirk Nowitzki

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We know abstinence sex education doesn't work and creates unhealthy sexual relationships. So why are we taking a similar approach with screen time ?

– Jordan Shapiro

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The lawsuit seeks to protect the future of the TPP program, if successful, the lawsuit will ensure that the TPP program maintains its evidence-based principles and that new grantees are not forced to push dangerous( abstinence-only-until-marriage) curriculums.

– Planned Parenthood

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I honestly think it's a misuse of taxpayer money, abstinence-only education demonizes sexual activity and makes young people afraid to go out and ask for help.

– Sadie Hernandez

Found on CNN
6 years ago

The fact of the matter is that all of the funding and treatment that is being offered up today is focused on Suboxone, Narcan or some other medically-assisted treatment program and no one is looking at faith-based, abstinence-based treatment as a viable option.

– Peer Specialist Bobby Brazell

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I'm all about adding interventions and therapeutic techniques that have proven to be significantly profound in the changes to somebody's life and treatment. Unfortunately, I don't know that there's evidence to substantiate that marijuana's had that effect, our take is abstinence based and we use every tool or intervention we can that's been proven effective in the past.

– Todd Stumbo

Found on CNN
6 years ago

We have to realize they are unable to maintain abstinence not for lack of desire but because their brain is damaged.

– Eric Nestler

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Not only do kids have sex when you have an abstinence-only curriculum, they get pregnant more than those who have a comprehensive sexual education.

– Cora Breuner

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Adolescent sexuality is frequently seen as something that needs to be kept under control, and as such, many physicians understandably focus on prevention of harm, hence, the frequent discussions regarding the importance of abstinence, contraception and screening for sexually transmitted infections, but fewer, if any discussions regarding healthy sexual development.

– Terrill Bravender

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Next to abstinence, condoms are the best prevention method against any sexually transmitted infections.

– Zachary Thompson

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I'm feeling like I live somewhere in the '60s, talking about contraception and sometimes I can imagine deleting the word 'HIV' and saying 'unwanted pregnancy,' i think there is a lot of what's called 'slut shaming' in the Truvada story, but it's the exact analogy of what happened in the '60s with birth control. I mean, we've been living 30 years with the dogma that says the only way to be safe -- to prevent HIV infection -- is using condoms or abstinence.

– Demetre Daskalakis

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Regardless of what I did personally, I just think that abstinence is the only... 100 percent foolproof way to prevent pregnancy.

– Bristol Palin

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Abstinence from all tobacco and nicotine products is still the best recommendation for pregnant women.

– Michael Weaver

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

They told me three months (of abstinence), but I am going to make it five months, that's my decision.

– Musa Pabai

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health.

– Robert E. Lee

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10 years ago

Courtly love-poetry may first have been written during long periods of abstinence on the Crusades, but it would not have flourished in the cold of northern Europe without some help from the chimney.

– James Burke

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13 years ago

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

– Voltaire

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13 years ago

Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult.

– Samuel Johnson

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13 years ago

Use, do not abuse neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

– Voltaire

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14 years ago

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