abstinence-based

Fast forward to 2011 and Wallace, 47, now a freelance graphic designer – and drug free – says he feels like a man transformed, all thanks to an abstinence-based drug rehabilitation programme he undertook during his last spell in jail run by charity the Rehabilitation for Addicted Prisoners Trust Rapt.

Could an intensive, abstinence-based approach solve prisoners' drug addiction? 2011

This study contributes to the growing body of international evidence that abstinence-based rehabilitation programmes can help the majority of participants to recover from addiction, Trace says.

Could an intensive, abstinence-based approach solve prisoners' drug addiction? 2011

He says that just 3% of prisoners with substance abuse problems have access to intensive abstinence-based treatment.

Could an intensive, abstinence-based approach solve prisoners' drug addiction? 2011

Americans start having sex at 17 and get married around 27, he said, but abstinence-based programs are presented as though getting married right out of high school is still the norm.

Sex, science and statistics Boing Boing 2009

Abstinence-based programmes are not without their critics, and in a change of tone from the Conservatives' abstinence-based stance before the 2010 election, the coalition's drugs strategy published last December acknowledged the problem of treating chronic users, citing the importance of "recovery" rather than abstinence.

Could an intensive, abstinence-based approach solve prisoners' drug addiction? 2011

Using figures from official police records, the study analysed data for almost 400 prisoners who had completed an intensive abstinence-based programme between November 2004 and April 2009.

Could an intensive, abstinence-based approach solve prisoners' drug addiction? 2011

For six months during 2007 he underwent an intensive "five days a week, morning and afternoon" abstinence-based course and on release was helped to adjust to life outside with a short stay in a residential facility run by the charity.

Could an intensive, abstinence-based approach solve prisoners' drug addiction? 2011

He believes in abstinence-based sex education and the over-lapping of religion and government.

Matthew Yglesias » Tim Kaine for DNC 2009

Will ONDCP step out of its comfort zone and move a little beyond an abstinence-based approach?

Real Change or Changing Rhetoric? Monitoring the Shift in US Drug Policy 2010

Will ONDCP step out of its comfort zone and move a little beyond an abstinence-based approach?

Allan Clear: Real Change or Changing Rhetoric? Monitoring the Shift in US Drug Policy 2010