This article is about the avoidance of drugs and alcohol. For other uses, see Sober.
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Sobriety is solemn or dignified personal behaviour, in particular abstinence with regard to (typically) the consumption of alcoholic beverages or illicit drugs. It is also sometimes applied to the figurative 'consumption' of pornography, video games, DVDs, CDs, books, and the like. In mathematics, particularly in topology, a topological space X is sober if every irreducible closed subset of X is the closure of exactly one singleton of X. An irreducible closed subset of X is defined to be a nonempty closed subset of X which is not the union of two... Behavior or behaviour refers to the actions or reactions of an object or organism, usually in relation to the environment. ... This article is about the practice of abstinence in general. ... Booze redirects here. ... ...
The common phrase clean and sober refers to both not taking illicit drugs ("clean") and not drinking alcohol ("sober").
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In neuro-linguistic programming, sobriety is the state of not acting out in an addiction. This article is about the alternative interpersonal communications and psychotherapy model, neuro-linguistic programming. ... Acting out is a psychological term meaning to perform an action to express (often unconscious) emotional conflicts. ... This article is about the concept of addiction. ...
Alcoholism is the consumption of, or preoccupation with, alcoholic beverages to the extent that this behavior interferes with the drinkers normal personal, family, social, or work life, and may lead to physical or mental harm. ...
Sobriety is a priority, but it’s not an obsession.
The cycle of sobriety remains in place only so long as the sober alcoholic/addict cognitively chooses to continue to acknowledge the existence of his or her arrested addiction(s).
As one continues to “make peace” with the facts regarding his or her arrested addiction—that is, as one continues to recognize alcohol and drugs as a non-option—one comes to prefer a sober life-style; one longs to preserve it, to respect the arrested chemical addiction, and to protect the new, sober life.
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