Health -- overcoming or managing one's disease(s) or symptoms -- for example, abstaining from use of alcohol, illicit drugs, and non-prescribed medications if one has an addiction problem -- and, for everyone in recovery, making informed, healthy choices that support physical and emotional well-being.
During the debate, Mr. Lazio walked over to Mrs. Clinton's lectern, waving a sheet of paper, gesturing at her and demanding that she sign a pledge abstaining from using unregulated campaign contributions known as soft money.
By agreeing to protesters' conditions to begin talks and abstaining from using more force to clear crowds, the local government has shown it could be willing to consider some concessions.
If multitasking and constant email cause a lack of productivity, negatively impact social relationships, and increase overall stress, can simply abstaining from using technology reverse these negative consequences?
There it was again, in 2016, in plain sight: shaming the appearance of someone struggling with addiction to scare others into abstaining from using drugs—or, perhaps in the case of this media organization, to get clicks.
Table 2 also shows variation in the number of teaching sessions focusing on the treatment and interventions available to people who misuse substances, with the majority focusing on how to advise a patient appropriately on reducing or abstaining from using alcohol or tobacco (n = 319, an average of 17 sessions per medical school).
Ninety participants (30 frequent users, 30 infrequent 'recreational' users and 30 ex-users who had abstained from use for at least 3 months) were interviewed and reported drug use was verified by hair sample analysis.
Under this option it would be possible for the U.S. to re-institute the Doha peace conference and get agreement of various factions to guarantee civil rights for women, to abstain from use of force and violence in resolving difference with other factions, and possibly engaging the UN to guarantee the elements of the peace accord.
Little is known about whether documented experimental differences in the thermal pain threshold might influence patient willingness to rehabilitate aggressively or to abstain from use of rescue medications.
From sundown on Friday, March 7th, until sundown on Saturday, March 8th, participants abstained from using technology, unplugging themselves from their phones and tablets, computers and televisions.
The capstone experiment asks readers to abstain from using selected devices for a substantial span of time, and then to pay close attention to how things go.
