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The household was conservative, Presbyterian and promoted abstinence.

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In the lived reality of an individual family’s home, she said, “we can’t just teach abstinence.”

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He favours abstinence treatment programmes, when drug users go "cold turkey".

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They are concerned that encouraging abstinence from particular foods could trigger binge eating and extreme dieting to compensate.

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That’s not to suggest that abstinence alone has turned Team USA into champions.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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