abstinent
ab stuh nuhnt
- n a person who refrains from drinking intoxicating beverages
- s self-restraining; not indulging an appetite especially for food or drink
not totally abstinent but abstemious
- After the subjects had been abstinent a year, Volkow rescanned their brains and found that they had begun to return to their predrug state.
- Abstinent himself, he worried much and cautioned often about society's move away from traditional family patterns and its increasing self-indulgence.
- Campral, the first new drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in almost a decade for helping drinkers remain abstinent, could help.