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To get R95 funding, they also cannot require people to be totally abstinent before being admitted.

In fact, “age is actually the best predictor of a positive response,” he said, adding that “treatment doesn’t necessarily mean you have to become abstinent. We work with people to moderate their drinking.”

Purity balls typically saw fathers and their teenage daughters dressed up for a night of dinner and dancing that ends with the daughter signing a pledge to her father to abstain from dating and remain sexually abstinent until marriage.

Harm reduction is the idea that someone does not need to be completely sober or abstinent from drugs in order to receive treatment and care or community support and sympathy.

The motion also quoted the court psychiatrist’s report, which found Hart’s “risk would be reduced if he remains abstinent from alcohol.”