abstinence
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"Abstinence is the safest option for heart health."
From Science Daily • May 15, 2026
Abstinence Spirits makes complex spirits from a variety of botanicals native to South Africa's Cape Floral Kingdom, where the company is based.
From Salon • Dec. 17, 2024
In the U.S., clinicians have historically used a method called the Finnegan Neonatal Abstinence Scoring Tool, which was developed in the 1970s, to assess certain withdrawal symptoms in infants, Buck said.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 28, 2023
Cabell Huntington Hospital was the first hospital in West Virginia to establish a unit, its Neonatal Therapeutic Unit, dedicated to the treatment of babies born with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome.
From Washington Times • Jun. 19, 2019
Abstinence from the delights of love, continence except for the sole end of procreation, is the rule which he proposes to the world.
From A Problem in Greek Ethics Being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion by Symonds, John Addington
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