It is not abstinence versus medication; it is abstinence, maintained by medication.
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Abstinence as a goal is more important than abstinence as a teaching point.
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Abstinence, because there's not a lot of room for abstinence on college campuses.
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It's really more about general mechanisms like abstinence motivation and social support for abstinence.
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If they can't do it through abstinence, then mostly-abstinence is a good thing to achieve.
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The paradox is the comprehensive programs are effective in promoting abstinence, while abstinence-only programs are not.
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"What we were doing with just saying 'Abstinence, abstinence, don't do it, don't do it,' doesn't always resonate," she said.
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The report also says that while abstinence is 100 percent effective, promoting abstinence-only until heterosexual marriage occurs is ineffective.
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"However, abstinence-based treatment - the use of behavioral therapy or counseling combined with complete abstinence - is not scientifically supported," Maxwell said.
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Abstinence, by definition, can 85033 percent prevent pregnancy, but abstinence only sex education has shown the opposite effect of increased teen pregnancy.
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A third was published by Mathematica, a nonpartisan research organization, and it, too, found that abstinence programs had no effect on sexual abstinence for youth.
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The Trump administration has also been a strong backer of the abstinence-only approach — in 2018, it issued new funding rules favoring abstinence-based programs.
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"If prevention (abstinence) information was given out widely then we could curb these abortion cases," said Joseph Peter Kamande, director of programming at charity Abstinence Kenya.
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"The Trump-Pence administration has made their abstinence-only-until-marriage agenda crystal clear," she added, referring to several recent moves to fund abstinence-only education.
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Abstinence education advocate named to HHS post The Trump administration has named a national abstinence education advocate to a post at the Department of Health and Human Services.
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U.S. funding for abstinence-only education declined under President Barack Obama, but President Donald Trump's proposed 2018 budget included $277 million in new funding for abstinence-only education.
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In fact, it's about a 50/50 split between those who commit to abstinence and identify as being in recovery, and those who find their own way without abstinence.
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The federal government has invested more than $100 million into abstinence-only sexuality education since an eight-point definition of abstinence education was enacted in 1996 under the Social Security Act.
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On top of that, despite the fact that abstinence-based sex ed is ineffective at preventing pregnancy and the spread of STIs, 26 state programs require information on abstinence be stressed.
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" (Section 2177) "There shall be no effort in either an abstinence-only or an abstinence-plus curriculum to teach that abortion can be used to prevent the birth of a baby.
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Their claim is flat-out wrong, and they advocate for abstinence-based programs, which have been shown to be totally ineffective in a Congress-authorized study on four popular abstinence programs in 2007.
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But the programs Mr. Thompson tried viewed abstinence as the only true recovery — even though abstinence treatment has not been shown to reduce mortality and is less effective than medication at preventing relapse.
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Delays in young people's age of first sex are not a vindication of abstinence-only programs Undoubtedly, proponents of abstinence-only-until-marriage programs will tout this report as validation for their approach.
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Popes in the 11th and 12th centuries insisted on abstinence.
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Instead, it criticized harm reduction therapy and promoted drug abstinence.
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That's right: Abstinence programs may hurt more than they help.
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He admitted he does occasionally break his abstinence while traveling.
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That could affect substance use outcomes — and especially abstinence outcomes.
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Abstinence programs do not lead kids to stop having sex.
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While abstinence can work for some, we need many options.
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Of course, this leaves open the possibility of extreme abstinence.
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Other options included condoms, the birth control patch and abstinence.
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There's a reason abstinence often doesn't work: It's too difficult.
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Abstinence-only programs ignore and marginalize many young people Pushing abstinence until marriage as an exclusive message does not in any way support sexually active adolescents and those who are already pregnant or parenting.
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Declarative memory, particularly encoding of new information, was the aspect of memory most impacted by cannabis abstinence, the authors found, adding those who maintained abstinence learned more words than those who continued to use cannabis.
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And about 40 percent of those had not managed complete abstinence.
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The threat of overdose is greatest after a period of abstinence.
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Mackenzie Phillips says abstinence is the key to maintaining her sobriety.
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After about two days, I had already adjusted myself (to abstinence).
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But there's little scientific evidence teaching full abstinence from drugs works.
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It also seems like there's a parallel to abstinence-only education.
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Still, abstinence might be the best choice for the creatures anyway.
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Evidence has mounted that abstinence-only sex education just doesn't work.
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There is no evidence to suggest that abstinence rates are changing.
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To relax, I tried marijuana, then hallucinogens, then beer, then abstinence.
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The bill would extend funding to abstinence-only sex education programs.
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Of those that do, most mandate or stress abstinence-only instruction.
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Despite the dreams of social conservatives, few teens actually practice abstinence.
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How do you look upon abstinence-based treatment at this point?
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Eventually, they may get to the point of abstinence-based care.
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Whether ibogaine could produce long-term abstinence, though, was still unclear.
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The facilities typically offer only one approach to treating addiction — abstinence.
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Living a life where secondary abstinence isn't exactly a first choice.
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Since 1980, Congress has spent $2.2 billion on abstinence-only programs.
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Second, the evidence isn't there that abstinence-only education affects outcomes.
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This was my only abstinence that existed solely in my head.
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It wasn't an abstinence-only class, but it was pretty close.
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Part of the problem with abstinence-only sex ed is that it doesn't take into consideration that abstinence needs to be perfect to be effective, according the review published Tuesday in the Journal of Adolescent Health.
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Since Huber has a history of advocating abstinence-only education — she's the former president and CEO of Ascend, an organization that preaches abstinence until marriage — her appointment to this office worries advocates of comprehensive sex ed.
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While the Obama administration primarily focused on comprehensive sex-ed programs, which can include lessons on contraception, disease prevention, healthy relationships and abstinence, the Trump administration has put a bigger emphasis on programs that prioritize abstinence.
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The TPPI was Obama's answer to abstinence-only sexual education in school.
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Twenty-six states require abstinence be stressed when teaching students about sex.
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But in the end, the only remedy is complete abstinence from alcohol.
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But I never really discussed my food issues until I got abstinence.
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Abstinence-only "education" does not raise the age of first sexual contact.
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In fact, 37 states insist that abstinence be part of the curriculum.
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Many cultures and religions prescribe the abstinence that was indoctrinated in me.
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Americans agree: We need to fund sex education, not abstinence-only programs.
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Abstinence-only messages about sexting are likely to be counterproductive as well.
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Indeed, much has been made of Prince's abstinence from drugs and alcohol.
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The good news is that C.H.S. has a pretty simple cure: abstinence.
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Back then, programs like D.A.R.E. and 'abstinence only' scared me into obedience.
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Abstinence outside of marriage has long been U.S. social conservatives' battle cry.
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"Therefore, alcohol abstinence is advised before conception and during pregnancy," Zegkos added.
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RCOs, meanwhile, are aimed at people who want to stop problematic drug use or sustain abstinence, but unlike traditional self-help groups, they don't prescribe one specific way to recover and don't reject people who aren't seeking abstinence.
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In contrast, Obama's HHS poured resources into comprehensive sex ed, which can include lessons on contraception, disease prevention, healthy relationships and abstinence, and slashed funding for the abstinence-only programs that proliferated under the George W. Bush administration.
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History has proven that abstinence approaches do not work: Teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infection rates did not decline in states that emphasized an abstinence-only sex education curriculum and criminalization of heroin use did not stop overdose deaths.
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Abstinence-only proponents are trying to hide the facts by rebranding the same failed programs Conceding that the case against abstinence-only-until-marriage programs has gained traction, these programs' most ardent proponents gave their efforts a complete makeover.
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Armentano: Abstinence is the only sure-fire way to beat a drug test.
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MYTH: People wouldn't need abortions if they were more responsible FACT: Abstinence works.
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Hopefully Vasilii's commitment to abstinence will help him get back to fighting form.
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Canada, which currently requires 5 years of abstinence (!), will likely follow suit soon.
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The program pushes for abstinence and helped her stop taking heroin and pills.
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They do not deter—and may even encourage—abstinence in the long run.
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Yet the chief methods of prevention, abstinence and condoms, are tried and true.
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In keeping our promise to not kiss, we, of course, also practice abstinence.
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Receiving abstinence-only sex education was not associated with risk of sexual assault.
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What the data shows is that abstinence-based programs and policies aren't helping.
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Trump also advocated for more abstinence-based treatment to combat the opioid crisis.
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It was his mother who suggested a faith-based and abstinence recovery program.
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Research shows that abstinence-only programs aren't effective because they don't prevent pregnancy.
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Chastain is 39—forgetting the word abstinence, he also ignores... well, a lot.
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Read This Next: Huh, Another Study Says Abstinence-Only Sex Ed Doesn't Work
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Even though that's a medicine, that's really more of an abstinence-based approach.
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Sexual education, while offered in some secondary schools, focuses on abstinence and morality.
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Andrew Burki is a person in long-term abstinence based recovery since 2001.
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Luhr says that many bands wrote songs about abstinence, abortion, and gay rights.
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In another six months, I lost everything I had gained in my abstinence.
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And the announcement suggests that the government wants to promote abstinence until marriage.
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My son was born in the summer of 2004 with neonatal abstinence syndrome.
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While it's called a fast, it does not require complete abstinence from food.
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Tess herself believed that abstinence-based rehabs were her best shot at success.
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He also attended meetings of SMART Recovery, a secular abstinence-focused support group.
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More recently, it set new funding rules that favor an abstinence-only approach.
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Still, the Obama administration's menu of "evidence-based programs" includes three abstinence programs.
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Still, the Obama administration's menu of "evidence-based programs" included three abstinence programs.
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Instead, Obria's staff advocates for abstinence as the sole form of STD prevention.
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Whereas for girls, there's more of a focus on abstinence and delaying sex.
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For observant Christians, the season of Lent means fasting, abstinence, confession and penance.
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Priests cannot marry, so sexuality from the start was about abstinence, and obedience.
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In 2012, total hospital costs to treat neonatal abstinence syndrome were $2000 million.
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The Trump administration is moving toward abstinence-only sex education for teens. Mmhm.
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One time I showed some friends my abstinence vow from my Passport2Purity program.
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"It's always hard to tell politicians that abstinence is quite a risky thing for these people" Switzerland's experience, says Robert Haemmig, medical director of Bern's Integrated Drug Services Programme, suggests that abstinence may not be the right goal for heroin addicts.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which recently looked into the scientific evaluations from 23 abstinence-only programs and 66 comprehensive risk reduction (CRR) programs, found inconclusive evidence on whether abstinence-only education helps young people delay having sex.
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"History has proven that abstinence approaches do not work: Teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infection rates did not decline in states that emphasized an abstinence-only sex education curriculum and criminalization of heroin use did not stop overdose deaths," she added.
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The push for increased focus on abstinence is no surprise, given that the chief of staff for the office that oversees the program is Valerie Huber, who before joining Health and Human Services headed Ascend, a national pro-abstinence organization.
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She reportedly died of alcohol poisoning, after drinking excessively following a period of abstinence.
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According to the most recent data, 37 states simply require abstinence to be taught.
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Abstinence-only programs aren't just failing when it comes to teens' sexual health, though.
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Despite backlash about the program's moralistic focus on abstinence, it was an unprecedented success.
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Meanwhile, states that have embraced abstinence-only education have the highest teen pregnancy rates.
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In 2012, an estimated 21,732 babies were born with neonatal abstinence syndrome, or NAS.
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If you want to force people into abstinence, it's probably not going to work.
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We need comprehensive sex education programs that teach about sex and sexuality, not abstinence.
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Her pregnancy sparked controversy due to her mother's stance on abstinence-only sex education.
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"With Pence, you need to look at the framework, which is abstinence," Clere said.
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Ramadan is more than abstinence from food and drink during the hours of daylight.
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In its own manual, the Islamic State outlines the abstinence method as one option.
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According to league policy, Gordon will have to demonstrate sustained abstinence during his suspension.
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Abstinence and faithfulness programming is nothing more than morality masquerading as a prevention strategy.
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This is why leading medical organizations have taken strong stances against abstinence-only programs.
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Huber's office recently announced changes to the program that make it more abstinence-focused.
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Sex education focused on an abstinence-only approach fails in a number of ways.
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The first lady has taken an interest in children born with neonatal abstinence syndrome.
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J.A.V. requires abstinence from drugs and alcohol, and enforces a regimen of daily prayer.
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Could a state prohibit a doctor from recommending abstinence or encouraging safe sexual behavior?
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I still had moments of bemoaning my abstinence, like at an office holiday party.
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One big problem with abstinence-only, though, is there's no evidence that it works.
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For all these conditions, "the most important treatment is abstinence from alcohol," Moon said.
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Short of abstinence, no birth control method is ever 280% guaranteed to prevent pregnancy.
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Good news is she wasn't alone in her abstinence ... Hailey Baldwin didn't smoke either.
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The administration's proposed budget in May included funneling $277 million toward abstinence education programs.
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Her alternative sex education teaches her a few new tricks: This one is easy: No. Thirty-seven states mandate that abstinence be covered, and in some cases "stressed," despite evidence that abstinence education isn't effective—it's correlated with an increase in teen pregnancy.
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In 1981, the U.S. government began funding abstinence-based sex ed under the Adolescent Family Life Act, under which schools can still promote abstinence as the only way to prevent pregnancy and STDs so long as they don't directly reference any religion.
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Prior to their marriage, the two were vocal about their vow of abstinence while dating.
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It's not celibacy or abstinence Because asexuality is a sexual orientation, it's not a choice.
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HHS later reopened applications for the funding, but with strict requirements focused on abstinence education.
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Abstinence doesn't work for me because it causes its equal and opposite reaction later on.
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In the Bush era, the US government invested heavily in "abstinence only" sexual education programs.
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By far, the majority of government funding for sex ed goes to abstinence-only programs.
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In the U.S., 37 states require schools to teach abstinence as part of sex-education.
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Such programs reduce overdose, cut mortality, and can even lead to abstinence from street drugs.
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Both are very much concerned' Edward more so—with the idea of purity and abstinence.
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Learning about abstinence and delaying sex are important parts of any effective sex education program.
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All that talk of his abstinence had only served as foreplay to my drunken brain.
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I'm afraid of getting an STI, so I honestly prefer abstinence, just to be safe.
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A Cuban, Catholic, and culturally conservative parent, my mom was super pro-abstinence back then.
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And yet, abstinence-only education continues to spread across America like a painful, oozing infection.
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His abstinence snapped, and he overdosed in New York in 2009 on cocaine and pharmaceuticals.
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Foley's background shows she's in step with the administration on issues of abortion and abstinence.
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Before taking her position in the administration, Huber headed Ascend, a teen-abstinence advocacy organization.
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"I'm a big proponent of harm reduction for nicotine addiction [versus abstinence only]," Shelley says.
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For example, AA really emphasizes total abstinence from drinking as the solution to alcohol addiction.
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Democrats, meanwhile, say Republicans want to use the bill to extend an abstinence education program.
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One family I know with two heroin-addicted sons spent $300,000 on an abstinence center.
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By state law, sex education is abstinence-focused; condoms may be mentioned, but not distributed.
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Abstinence would set me up for a harder fall than any banana peel could produce.
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Meanwhile, the Trump administration is prioritizing abstinence-only education in programs that receive federal funding.
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But none of them advocate drastic change or abstinence in any one nutrient or food.
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It shouldn't come as a surprise that the administration, famous for pushing back against reproductive rights and women's healthcare, would prioritize abstinence-only education: Trump's 218 budget proposal called for a a $21990 million investment to "extend abstinence education and personal responsibility education program" between 2018 and 2024, he appointed longtime abstinence-only advocate Valerie Huber to the HHS, and in the summer the administration cut the funding for teen pregnancy prevention programs and research.
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They found similar results, but Santelli told me it's important to continue studying this as long as abstinence-only education prevails in the US. "A lot of people are surprised that the federal and state governments are still funding abstinence-only," Santelli said via email.
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The researchers evaluated studies for methodological quality, then gauged how AA and 212-step treatment fared in terms of rates of continuous abstinence from alcohol, percentage of days abstinent, longest period of abstinence, drinking intensity, alcohol addiction severity, alcohol-related consequences, and cost-effectiveness.
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The Trump administration has lurched rightward, not just compared to the Obama administration, which funded some abstinence-only programs, but even compared to the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush eras, when federal funding for abstinence was much more robust than under Barack Obama.
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Addicted to heroin, he had tried more than 20 traditional faith- and abstinence-based rehabilitation programs.
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So despite Obama's best efforts, it looks like funding for abstinence-only education will live on.
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SCOTUS' abstinence was probably the best they were ever going to get, Axios' Sam Baker emails.
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Something about abstinence within a limited time frame stuck where an attempt at moderation had not.
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The World Health Organization has repeatedly emphasized that Russia's addiction treatment options are all abstinence based.
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In 1977 Ellroy joined Alcoholics Anonymous and got clean: he liked the extremity of total abstinence.
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For the Christians who choose to observe it, Lent is a time of penance and abstinence.
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In addition, evidence suggests that we must call into question the success of abstinence-only methods.
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There are several problems with the abstinence-only-until-marriage, or "sexual risk avoidance" (SRA), approach.
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"Next to abstinence, condoms are the best prevention method against any sexually transmitted infections," Thompson said.
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Before she was the CEO of Life Network, Foley ran the organization's abstinence-only education program.
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If abstinence is the goal, then evidence and results should be the measure of our success.
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The second: The university's all-female, pro-abstinence organization held a "modesty panel" for campus women.
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"Thirty-seven percent of school districts in Texas are using an abstinence-only curriculum," Wiley says.
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Educators commonly advocate abstinence and only 13 states require that sex education even be medically accurate.
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Nor are we informed about alternatives to the vaccine, such as safe sexual practices and abstinence.
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Trump's HHS is trying to radically remake the successful TPPP to instead fund abstinence-only programs.
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"It's not normalized to use a condom, because of all of this abstinence training," she said.
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We used words like "science-based" and "evidence-based" as code alternatives to abstinence-only program.
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Hence, the mere utterance of abstinence from forbidden activities does not a change of heart make.
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Six months of abstinence might allow the liver to stabilize, negating the need for a transplant.
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Proponents of abstinence-only education are still pushing for more changes at HHS and through Congress.
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Assisting or allowing his ascendance by electoral abstinence in order to force a "revolution" is heretical.
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Utah, however, is still providing abstinence-only sex ed, with teachers prohibited from encouraging contraceptive use.
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She said youngsters who get abstinence-only education tend to get more sexually transmitted infections, too.
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Likewise, other randomized studies found that greater Alcoholics Anonymous participation is associated with greater alcohol abstinence.
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" — STEPHEN COLBERT, quoting a CNN report "Under President Trump, abstinence-only education is making a comeback.
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"You've got these two warring factions — the M.A.T. side and the abstinence-based side," he said.
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Yet in much of the US, abstinence-only programs remain the standard in sex ed classes.
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Much of the focus in the US is on abstinence, which is potentially dangerous for opioids.
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The benefits that come with recovery take time, and the immediate effects of abstinence are unpleasant.
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In defending the approach, Ms. Alves said abstinence campaigns in the United States have been effective.
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No matter how one tries to rebrand or repackage abstinence-only education, it does not work.
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By 2014, half of middle schools and a three-quarters of high schools focused on abstinence.
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In some states, abstinence-only education prevents schools from teaching about consent and spotting sexual abuse.
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President Trump appointed longtime abstinence-only advocate Valerie Huber to the Health and Human Services Department, last summer the administration cut the funding for TPPPs, and his 2018 budget proposal called for a a $277 million investment to extend abstinence-only education programs between 2018 and 2024.
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The shift toward abstinence and away from contraceptives can in part be traced to the secretary for population affairs at HHS, Valerie Huber, who was president and CEO of Ascend, an organization that advocates for "sexual risk avoidance" and "sexual delay" — in other words promoting abstinence.
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"We know from a body of evidence that abstinence-only programs don't provide a full range of medically accurate and non-stigmatized education around contraception use," said Jesse Boyer, senior policy manager at the Guttmacher Institute, a research and policy organization that opposes abstinence-only programs.
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A-Chess users wake up to a daily question: How confident are you of your abstinence today?
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A 2009 study found that people facilitated into higher AA attendance also reported more days of abstinence.
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Because they consume less alcohol, they are also likely to find a month of abstinence relatively easy.
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But most research consistently shows that teaching students only about abstinence doesn't stop them from having sex.
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Pastors lead prayers at the start of each session, and volunteers teach the children about sexual abstinence.
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A culture of abstinence "has had a lasting residual impact" in some areas, explains one modern prohibitionist.
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But even though researches have called AOUMs programs a failure, many still advocate for abstinence-only education.
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I was required to sign a pledge vowing to practice abstinence (if unmarried) and monogamy (if married).
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Easter is right around the corner, and the end of Lent abstinence and fasting is in sight.
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Today, all of the major Western religions -- Islam, Christianity and Judaism -- still have fasting or abstinence traditions.
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In fact, research has found that abstinence-only education is correlated with higher rates of teen pregnancy.
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Another 85033 percent of school districts took an abstinence-only approach to sex education in 2015-16.
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They found no link between the abstinence education and a reduction in any of the risk factors.
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Hong denies that the primary objective of "post gay" therapy is to practice abstinence from gay sex.
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EVA's next big battle: Contending with the damaging results of the government's abstinence-only attitude and policies.
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I think back to the Sex Ed classes we had in school, focused on abstinence and STDs.
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Under the revised model, programs that focus on abstinence education will be favored with federal grant money.
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In schools with rudimentary sex education, the message for girls is often abstinence, women's rights campaigners say.
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Like many other centers, Wabash Valley also began to run abstinence-only education programs in public schools.
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If passed, the bill would also ban the state's public schools from teaching abstinence-only sex education.
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A 2016 report published in the journal Pediatrics concluded that abstinence-only sexual education programs are ineffective.
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When people quit stimulants, tremors persisted for at least 18 months of abstinence, the study also found.
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During my abstinence from bread, I didn't feel any physically better, but I definitely felt psychologically worse.
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That causes anxiety and intense discomfort, which can ultimately result in delirium [or an] abstinence-induced psychosis.
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"I think whether people go for moderation or abstinence really depends on the individual," said Dr. Das.
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This is why fertility specialists have long recommended abstinence periods to men who face difficulty fathering children.
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Yet years of partying had shown us that abstinence was necessary for him and best for me.
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Medication reduces relapse more than abstinence does — but relapse is still common, as in Mr. Thompson's case.
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In abstinence treatment, however, relapsers drop out and are invisible; with medication, they often remain in treatment.
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The lack of resources and the confusion between abstinence or harm-reduction models make my head spin.
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There are still a lot of providers who prefer an abstinence-based approach to opioid addiction treatment.
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Funding decisions for H.I.V. prevention have long been mired in an ideological battle pitting condoms versus abstinence.
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So as to set a good example, she wore her total abstinence pioneer badge on her lapel. . . .
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According to league policy, for Gordon to be reinstated, he must demonstrate sustained abstinence during his suspension.
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In their place, it is reinstating failed "abstinence-only" curricula, now repackaged as "sexual risk avoidance" programs.
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"Abstinence — or reduction — of alcohol consumption has taken on a new life," he said in an email.
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During the mid-aughts in the US, abstinence-only sex ed was the mandate in many states.
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NNN is a time when people across social media take a vow of abstinence from sexual activity.
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The study can't prove that abstinence education or sex education actually causes teen birth rates to change.
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In Pennsylvania, which requires that abstinence be stressed, one teenager's activism succeeded in changing her school's curriculum.
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Now, the new Reelz special suggests it was this time of abstinence that ultimately caused Monteith's sudden death.
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"It's always hard to tell politicians that abstinence is quite a risky thing for these people," he says.
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This time, with his dad and stepmom as examples, he realized that his recovery didn't require total abstinence.
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She also wants to push for better sex education in these states, rather than ineffective abstinence-only teaching.
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Ciara is standing by her decision to practice abstinence before her marriage to Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson.
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"Trump and the Republican establishment are like a teenage Christian couple who've made an abstinence pledge," Oliver said.
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The abstinence group saw a 96.4 percent decrease and the usual cigarette group saw a 26.1 percent increase.
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In fact, research has found that abstinence-based programs do not reduce rates of teen pregnancy or STDs.
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In fact, the US states with the most abstinence programs paradoxically have the highest rates of teen pregnancy.
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In many parts of the world, particularly Russia, there's stock in this method of fear-based alcohol abstinence.
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Kill two birds with one stone and use your alcohol abstinence to give yourself an extra nutrient boost.
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Of those, 26 mandate that classes "must stress" abstinence (the rest only say that it must be covered).
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If abstinence-only crusaders were looking for revenge, they found a way to declare victory — at least temporarily.
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On the other hand, the guide says complete abstinence can seem "rude, anti-social and holier-than-thou".
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This is called neonatal abstinence syndrome, and it is truly a terrible way to come into this world.
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It's worth noting that abstinence-based treatments are not generally the most effective way to treat opioid addiction.
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The Trump Administration has moved in recent months to promote abstinence-only sex education in the nation's schools.
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Students who received abstinence-only instruction were not shown to have significantly reduced experiences of campus sexual assault.
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But he has also sought to reduce the number of abortions through education programs advocating adoption and abstinence.
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The American Academy of Pediatrics calls them the "first-line contraceptive choice" for teenagers who don't choose abstinence.
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To the contrary, teens in states that prescribe more abstinence education are actually more likely to become pregnant.
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Like Kat, he thinks the medication can be useful—but works best if people are committed to abstinence.
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Here is the quote, from a question and answer session: So, what exactly does abstinence mean to you?
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Further, research has found that abstinence education is paradoxically linked to higher rates of teen pregnancy and births.
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"There were no diagrams of the vulva or the penis, and certainly [it was] abstinence-only," she says.
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Let's dispense with two bits of practical business that kneecap this Cy Abstinence campaign before it even starts.
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In fact, AA and 12-step treatment appear to work better in terms of producing abstinence from alcohol.
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Multiple studies have shown abstinence-only sex-ed is linked to higher rates of STIs and teen pregnancies.
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They should not be shoehorned or pushed into an abstinence-based program, particularly if they've had relapsing disease.
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But, he added, he is proud to have seen it catch on with young people who champion abstinence.
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My own nearly 226-year recovery started with traditional rehab and abstinence, which I practiced for 217 years.
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One concern, says Rush, is that some abstinence-only programs stigmatize sexually active young people — especially young women.
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By 2014, half of middle schools and more than three-quarters of high schools were focusing on abstinence.
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I went to a public high school, but my school took an abstinence-only approach to sex ed.
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Soon, a unit with eight private rooms for babies with neonatal abstinence syndrome and their mothers will open.
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I called it "the Year of Abstinence" and chose habits or indulgences that met one of two criteria.
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Trump was headed to Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, where she later spoke about neonatal abstinence syndrome.
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She has also been a strong advocate for abstinence, although she has been pregnant twice out of wedlock.
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Far too many students face abstinence-only curricula that shame anything other than strict heterosexuality and gender conformity.
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This means accepting that medication based therapies are effective and rejecting the "moral" imperative of abstinence only programs.
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Neonatal abstinence syndrome, known as NAS, occurs primarily in infants who were exposed to opioids while in utero.
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"Moderate drinking seems to be associated with lower rates of mortality than heavy drinking or abstinence," he says.
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After some gains by the Obama administration to promote more comprehensive sex ed, which includes pregnancy prevention, discussions of anatomy, birth control, disease prevention, abstinence and healthy relationships, the Trump administration did not include the program in its proposed 2018 budget; it also has requested increased funding for abstinence education.
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Another great American myth, which accompanies A.A.'s dominance, is that abstinence is the only solution for problem drinkers.
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Then, in 2007, Missouri's legislature passed a bill that was, ostensibly, about letting schools offer abstinence-only sex ed.
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Rates are highest in the South, where many states mandate children be taught abstinence-only sex education in schools.
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The Trump administration's agenda to reinstate abstinence-only sex education garnered very funny skepticism from Jimmy Kimmel on Thursday.
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Richard Mahan, D.A.R.E.'s chief operating officer, told BuzzFeed News his program does not teach complete abstinence, per se.
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Every state that has passed a restrictive law around abortion in recent weeks requires that sex education "stress" abstinence.
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Religious groups in America, such as the Abstinence Clearinghouse, also argue that sex education encourages children to have sex.
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I turned 23 inside treatment, and after a few years of total abstinence, I decided it wasn't for me.
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American lawmakers have unbridled enthusiasm for abstinence-only sex education, spending an average of $60m a year on it.
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Ruling out abstinence, the most effective way to prevent STD transmission among sexually active young people is with condoms.
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Abstinence-only advocates argue that comprehensive sex education can lead to "promiscuity" and that AOUMs programs can curb that.
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Though abstinence doesn't seem to fix the problem, either, as noted in the study, there's something to Twenge's theory.
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She took her case to the public, to politicians and to the media, insisting that narcotics abstinence was possible.
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An increasing number of babies are born with neonatal abstinence syndrome — a tragic consequence of this public health epidemic.
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The US Food and Drug Administration just issued new consumer guidelines recommending complete abstinence from eating raw cookie dough.
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But some fans didn't see it this way, and thought Cyrus was criticizing those who practice abstinence before marriage.
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The medical term for a baby exposed to opioid abuse in the womb is, neonatal abstinence syndrome, or NAS.
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He tells her that not only will jumping not work, but that the only thing that does is abstinence.
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Though large quantities may induce a build-up of hepatic fat known as steatosis, abstinence will often reverse this.
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Studies have found that abstinence-only programs do nothing to reduce rates of teenage sexual activity or STD diagnoses.
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Morgentaler says doctors have long known that sustained periods of abstinence between ejaculation leads to a stronger, larger dynamic.
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The only sex education she remembers having took place in 8th grade, which was both optional and abstinence-only.
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I come from Texas, where, right now, its state policy is "abstinence only"—it doesn't really teach sex ed.
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They can choose (abstinence-based treatment) if they want to; there are patients who say that, there definitely are.
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A new study found that A.A. leads to increased rates and lengths of abstinence, compared with other common treatments.
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It's unlikely that a baby with neonatal abstinence syndrome would die in a hospital setting, but it does happen.
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The research found that rates of neonatal abstinence syndrome have increased nearly fivefold across the country over the past decade.
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Harrelson revealed his new found abstinence in an interview with Vulture, saying his hard-partying persona is now a misconception.
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Of those who drop out, two-thirds move on either to methadone, a widely used heroin substitute, or to abstinence.
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It's funny, the guy I'm dating now had abstinence-only sex ed and was only taught about sex polluting you.
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Despite this, Planned Parenthood argues that the new guidelines clearly favor anti-abortion and pro-abstinence organizations over their affiliates.
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Faced with the singular option of abstinence-based treatment, many patients returned to the streets and began injecting heroin again.
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Would it be dangerous to let people with addiction get these drugs without requiring them to take steps towards abstinence?
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If the medication works and using cocaine is less compelling, this may help people to achieve abstinence from using cocaine.
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His other books include Bad Haircut, The Wishbones, Joe College, The Abstinence Teacher, Nine Inches, and his newest, Mrs. Fletcher.
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And like the abstinence-only programs they support, we expect their claims to be short on science and basic facts.
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No study that has been published by a professional peer-reviewed medical journal has found abstinence programs to be effective.
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It's much better than sex education that's rooted in ideas of abstinence, or scaring the heebie-jeebies out of people.
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The first lady will participate in a roundtable discussion about neonatal abstinence syndrome and tour a neonatal intensive care unit.
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And, of course, most pediatricians would encourage adolescents to use condoms if they have sex rather than preach abstinence-only.
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" On the wall was a rack of pamphlets with titles such as "Before She Decides" and "Intentional Abstinence for Singles.
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Teens regularly get medically inaccurate information, learn solely about abstinence, and hear only bad things about LGBTQ identity and sexuality.
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The lawsuit alleges there was a shift in preference for abstinence-focused programs outlined in an April funding opportunity announcement.
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With Valerie Huber, a former abstinence education advocate, in a senior role at HHS, more changes are likely to come.
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But the available data indicates that even the abstinence-first models are effective at keeping students sober and in school.
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Studies have even found that stable methadone patients have a more normal stress response than people who recover via abstinence.
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Not that voluntarily entering into a period of abstinence automatically results in a total—or even partial—diminution of desire.
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In the film, Timmy returns to drinking after several weeks of abstinence, but he is drinking far less than before.
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To that end, Forney believes abstinence is the only method to prevent unwanted pregnancy; she doesn't believe in birth control.
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While some 12-step programs allow medication-assisted treatment, others prohibit it as part of their demand for total abstinence.
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Abstinence models may be better to treat alcoholism, but not opioids, since opioids, especially those laced with fentanyl, are deadly.
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Several studies show that comprehensive sex education is correlated with lower rates of pregnancy, while abstinence-only education is not.
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"With time, a third to half the people step down to oral options, like methadone, or to abstinence," MacDonald said.
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Last year, her mother and grandfather teamed up to send her to an abstinence-only rehab center in Las Vegas.
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Moreover, many of those who recover do it through professional treatment with medications like methadone or buprenorphine, not through abstinence.
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As BuzzFeed News reported, administration officials who attended recent closed-door meetings at the United Nations were preoccupied with abstinence.
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Brazil's minister for women and families, an evangelical pastor, formulated a new abstinence campaign in consultation with a religious group.
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They also point to the declining rate of sexual activity among teenagers as a positive outcome of pro-abstinence policies.
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Currently, 26 states require that sex education heavily emphasizes abstinence, while just 24 states require any sex education at all.
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A now-deleted TikTok video of a nurse promoting abstinence outside of marriage to prevent STDs went viral this weekend.
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Valerie Huber, an advocate for abstinence education, has been named acting deputy assistant secretary for population affairs, the spokeman said.
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If all cigarettes tasted the way one did after three weeks of abstinence, no one would consider quitting, I thought.
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Truly comprehensive sex ed should include information on abstinence, but also on sexually transmitted infections and contraception, Driver told me.
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Unlike the abstinence-only approach, education like the kind students at Western and Lakeside get is also supported by research.
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Repeating the mistakes of the past and pouring even more public resources into abstinence-only programs won't get us there.
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In many schools, however, the focus on abstinence goes beyond just warning children about sexually transmitted infections or unplanned pregnancies.
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The group was turned down in 2018 because it doesn't provide birth control other than natural family planning and abstinence.
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It would require the teaching of safe sex, consent and sexual orientation, as well as bar abstinence-only sex education.
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Women are actually more likely to try alcohol abstinence, and if the drinking gap is closing, men might be, too.
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This training was tested in 328 schools in western Kenya against the country's standard school anti-AIDS curriculum, which promoted abstinence.
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That perception is also exacerbated by some abstinence-only sex-ed programs, that falsely claim that condoms don't work, Holt said.
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Why do so many addiction memoirs end the same way, when statistically speaking, most addicts don't maintain 123 percent lifelong abstinence?
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What nuances and truths might we be missing when we insist on lifelong abstinence as the only "happy ending" for addicts?
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And in those same "high exposure" countries saturated with abstinence messaging, and gagged under the Mexico City Policy, abortion rates soared.
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Based on what I've seen here and It Follows, we are in the age of movies and TV heavily preaching abstinence.
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The baby was born with neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS), a treatable condition that is caused by exposure to opioids in utero.
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" — JIMMY FALLON "It was reported today that President Trump has been pushing for women's health programs that are based on abstinence.
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"Specifically, defendants caused an opioid crisis that's evidenced by increased rates of addiction, overdose deaths and neonatal abstinence syndrome," he added.
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But, best case scenario, a period of cold medicine abstinence ends with the realization that you're sick with the office bug.
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To badly paraphrase abstinence-only speakers fighting the losing battle of keeping teens from taking their clothes off: True lobster waits.
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He helped the harm reduction community redefine recovery, which he saw as making "any positive change" rather than simply demanding abstinence.
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The center had provided some of the literature used by my school's sex education program (which was an abstinence-only curriculum).
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For some it's a reason to rage before the beginning of Lent and a 40-day period of abstinence for Christians.
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However, the administration will use their new criteria that emphasizes abstinence and erases mention of LGBTQ youth to award future grants.
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Teyonah Parris plays Lysistrata, who coaxes her friends to unite with her in abstinence until their lovers put down their guns.
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As you may have already read, many of us here at Refinery29 are pushing for sequin abstinence this New Year's Eve.
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It has funded abstinence-only programs that have proven ineffective at reducing infection rates, though the 2008 reauthorization removed that requirement.
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No matter what outcome you look at—teen pregnancy, STDs, sexual violence—preaching abstinence until marriage just doesn't seem to work.
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Reception from Boston's large recovery community, where some might feel challenged by SPOT's non-abstinence focus, has also been mostly positive.
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" Even the Bush administration's 2004-2008 strategic plan, which made abstinence-only education a priority, did not include the word "conception.
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In other words, most Americans don't want the abstinence-only approach to sex education that's in so many of our schools.
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At worst, teens are stuck in abstinence-only classrooms, where everyone pretends like they're not going to fuck until they're married.
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She explains how they can help teens when it comes to their emotional, physical and sexual health, abstinence and birth control.
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Neonatal abstinence syndrome creates severe risks for newborns, including, among others, poor growth and seizures as the baby goes through withdrawal.
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Planned Parenthood argues the new requirements emphasize abstinence and natural family planning, while de-emphasizing the FDA's approved methods of contraception.
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One person might succeed with abstinence-based therapy and counseling but not respond well to FDA-approved medications and vice versa.
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This lie, that abstinence-only in-patient rehabilitation for opioid use disorder is the gold standard of care, is without evidence.
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Some black-owned papers took whatever advertising came their way, but Trotter, true to his abstinence roots, refused to advertise alcohol.
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The funds will instead go toward abstinence education and a natural family planning program called Fertility Education and Medical Management (FEMM).
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A bill that would ban schools from teaching abstinence-only sex education is making its way through the Colorado state Legislature.
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The "tyranny of abstinence," as Jamison calls it, has surely saved many addicts; it beats blackouts and wrecked lives hands down.
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But thanks to a decade of innovation and entrepreneurship there is an alternative to the out-of-date abstinence-only approach.
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"We have randomized clinical trial data showing that reSET-O improves abstinence and retention, " said Yuri Maricich, Pear's chief medical officer.
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Smokers who quit during addiction treatment have a 25 percent increased likelihood of long-term abstinence from alcohol and other drugs.
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For people who believe that abstinence is going to help them, the belief itself may be driving some of the benefits.
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The Trump administration has named a national abstinence education advocate to a post at the Department of Health and Human Services.
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This, in turn, boosts member's relapse coping skills and improves their motivation and self confidence in being able to achieve abstinence.
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And the Department of Health and Human Services has pushed abstinence-only programs that experts say severely undermine disease-prevention efforts.
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The Trump administration, embracing an abstinence-only approach, has reversed course, cutting more than $200 million in funding for the program.
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When we promote abstinence over medically accurate sexual health, it inflicts a lifetime of physical and psychological harm on young people.
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The babies may have tremors, seizures, breathing problems or other signs of neonatal abstinence syndrome, caused by withdrawal from the drugs.
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They use innocuous sounding terms like "sexual risk avoidance" and "healthy relationships" because they know "abstinence" can sound harsh and retrograde.
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In theory, abstinence is an idealistic solution, but it has been shown time and time again to be unsuccessful in practice.
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Instead, too many health care professionals, including Dr. Tom Price, the health and human services secretary, promote moralistic abstinence-based approaches.
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Two nurses recently went viral on TikTok after shaming patients for exaggerating their symptoms, and for advocating abstinence over safe sex.
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Its presentation preached that we are out of control and that abstinence is the only way to guarantee happily married lives.
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Of the many programs some groups promote as being abstinence-based, Mathematica has confirmed four as having evidence of being successful.
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The results found a "statistically significant increase" in adherence to abstinence from alcohol, cocaine, marijuana and stimulants, according to the FDA.
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Trump was headed to Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, where she was scheduled to make remarks about neonatal abstinence syndrome.
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It has channeled funding for teen pregnancy prevention programs and family planning grants into programs that emphasize sexual abstinence over contraception.
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It was only toward the end of the Obama administration that they began to target abstinence-only funding for zeroing out.
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Everyone will say the best option for you is abstinence from drugs, but that can be a lot for some people.
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Of course, we're not asexual just because we live in a monastery, but we've chosen abstinence as our gift to God.
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The fear mongering in parenting blogs is the mean older cousin of the abstinence-only sexual education many Americans still receive.
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Babies born opioid-addicted mothers can go through what's called neonatal abstinence syndrome, meaning that they go into withdrawal from opioids.
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In abstinence-based rehab, users are detoxed and lose their tolerance for drugs, he said — but they do not lose the cravings.
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The group that heard Dupas's lesson had a pregnancy rate 28 percent lower than those who received the standard abstinence-based curriculum.
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A few months prior, Obama had cut funding for abstinence-only sex education, strengthening America's support for comprehensive, fact-based sex ed.
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The number of infants experiencing opioid withdrawal after birth, or neonatal abstinence syndrome, grew nearly fivefold over the past decade, Patrick writes.
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"Promoting abstinence-only is rooted in heteronormativity, in holding women down, and using religion as a tool to discriminate," she says. 4.
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The new guidelines require grantees to focus on "sexual risk avoidance" and "sexual risk reduction" programs — advocacy code for abstinence-only education.
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These rulings come as the Trump administration has shifted the focus of both domestic and international women's health programs toward abstinence education.
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As part of the landmark verdict in August, Judge Thad Balkman set aside $107,683,000 to help combat neonatal abstinence syndrome, or NAS.
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The treatment still may fuel controversy from those who favor abstinence treatment and consider anti-addiction drugs substituting one drug for another.
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See, Olympic athletes live like monks: a life of pure abstinence, of early nights and cryonic recovery, of protein shakes and vitamins.
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After the suicide attempt, he went to an abstinence-based rehab facility, where he first heard of kratom from a fellow patient.
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But vapes are still harmful compared to complete abstinence from smoking (and increasingly popular with the precious pink lung meats of teens).
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We just might see another comprehensive review of abstinence-only sex ed, with exactly the same results, in a few short years.
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First, almost no abstinence-only program which has undergone rigorous evaluation has been shown to have any effect on young people's behavior.
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Bush's overall strategy included other efforts, but required that at least a third of the program funding be used to teach abstinence.
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Jessica Chastain should quit her bitchin' about birth control costs and start preachin' about abstinence ... so says Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Matt Garza.
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" Garza no likey ... and responded, "It's called abstinence, a word that has been forgotten amongst this generation... it's the best contraceptive... #juatsayin.
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He specifically responded to one fan's question about a 2009 South Park episode poking fun at his past commitment to sexual abstinence.
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In February, the Trump administration shifted guidelines for the Title X grants toward prioritizing groups that are faith-based and counsel abstinence.
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And although we usually associate abstinence difficulties with physical addictions, we often struggle to imagine that behaviors could create the same problems.
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President Barack Obama cut all funding for abstinence-only sex ed in public schools from his proposed 2017 budget, released last week.
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The changes, issued through a funding opportunity announcement (FOA) in April, emphasize abstinence education and programs that have not been rigorously tested.
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The range of options includes everything from counseling and abstinence- based rehabilitation to medications approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
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The criteria put a new emphasis on abstinence rather than the contraception that Planned Parenthood argues is the intent of the program.
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In the current study, researchers examined nationally representative hospital records, including 4,192 rural and 19,13 urban babies born with neonatal abstinence syndrome.
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That's pretty much what I have argued for in writing about this issue in the past; it in no way requires abstinence.
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He has also advocated sexual abstinence before marriage, and he appeared in an anti-abortion group's advertisement during the 2010 Super Bowl.
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Employees at the State Department have been told to call sex education "sexual risk avoidance," which primarily refers to abstinence-only education.
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An earlier report, also from the CDC, showed similar statistics surrounding the occurrence of neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) between 2628 and 28503.
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"Abstinence only" is a failed approach in sex education, so why is it being trotted out again when it comes to sexting?
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It also prioritizes groups that promote "sexual risk avoidance" (aka abstinence-only sex ed) for teenagers and cooperate with faith-based organizations.
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Trump cited "massive" Canadian tariffs among other reasons for his abstinence, arguing that such trade accords put the U.S. at a disadvantage.
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Republicans say Democrats are trying to stick in energy provisions, while Democrats say Republicans are trying to reauthorize an abstinence education program.
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Addiction is often chronic, however, and six months after the study, abstinence rates among the two patient groups were about the same.
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The abstinence-only education I received — at school, at home, in the church — left me with years of shame, isolation and fear.
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"There's still some conflicting feeling about Suboxone as a treatment, because it's not an abstinence-based treatment per se," said Dr. Cassle.
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Most projects begun under the Obama administration's Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program teach about contraception and sexually transmitted diseases in addition to abstinence.
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Abstinence is one of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's recommendations to avoid STIs, along with vaccines, condoms and mutual monogamy.
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Ronald Reagan was severely criticized for his slow response to the spread of H.I.V. and for recommending abstinence to address the infection.
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"The guidance will correct a misconception that patients must achieve total abstinence in order for MAT to be considered effective," Azar said.
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Inhofe's declaration of abstinence amounts to a tacit acknowledgment of the need for stronger rules that apply to all members of Congress.
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For the country as a whole, money spent on abstinence-only programs had no effect on adolescent birth rates, the researchers found.
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In general, sustenance was more pleasant than abstinence, although I'm less sure this past year was more impactful than the year before.
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Taking appropriately prescribed medicines helps the individual to achieve and maintain abstinence from the substance that is maintaining the disease of addiction.
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Abstinence, fidelity and both male and female condoms have failed to turn the tide despite 30 years of often controversial publicity campaigns.
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The only way to ensure that the effects of alcohol would not be passed on to a child, then, would be alcoholic abstinence.
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Out of every 21,2000 babies born in 2004, about 1.2 were born with opioid withdrawal, which, in babies, is called neonatal abstinence syndrome.
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" The organization also believes in abstinence until marriage between a man and woman, which they describe as "the expected context for sexual behaviors.
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Meanwhile, research has shown that abstinence-only education is ineffective in preventing teenage pregnancy, and may actually contribute to higher teen pregnancy rates.
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But when you look a little closer, they're pro-abstinence Instagram accounts, uh, which is not something I've ever seen on Instagram before.
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Some communities may lack providers to prescribe buprenorphine because local addiction treatment efforts focus on abstinence instead of medication-assisted treatment, Maxwell said.
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" Infants born to a mother using methadone may experience symptoms of withdrawal in the first days of life, also called "neonatal abstinence syndrome.
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The Trump administration issued a funding guidance Friday afternoon for government-sponsored Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programs (TPPP) that favors specific, abstinence-oriented approaches.
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Planned Parenthood has long been targeted by social conservatives who have tried to redirect funding toward religious organizations that educate women on abstinence.
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It is, as the headline suggests, like preaching abstinence as an effective means of preventing teen sex and pregnancy – an optimistic, naive fiction.
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For monastics and ultra-devout Orthodox Christians, the first three days of Lent are observed by almost total abstinence from food and drink.
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Through abstinence, my fiancé and I have learned to trust, work together, communicate, and much more — contribute to the future of our marriage.
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During the Bush administration, for example, California progressive sex educators were repeatedly audited by the CDC for not adhering to abstinence-only education.
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But critics of the campaign say that it only served to create hysteria around drugs, and that touting abstinence isn't the best approach.
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Among other things, Sturdevant provides sexual health information in a state where teaching sex education beyond abstinence is not allowed in public schools.
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In the South, where there are high rates of HIV, STIs, and teen births, curriculum focusing only on abstinence is common, Dercher said.
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At the same time, those men plan to funnel money to abstinence-only education and vouchers for "school choice," which includes religious schools.
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And the evidence is clear: pitting abstinence versus contraception as strategies to help teens avoid too-early pregnancy and parenthood is not productive.
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What's more, research suggests that the vast majority of Americans actually support sex-ed programs that both emphasize abstinence and encourage contraceptive use.
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"Programs and policies that promote abstinence until marriage…have repeatedly been shown to be ineffective and actually harmful to young people," Lindberg says.
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Because though Duncan is sober, he does have sex—and this show, if it's still unclear, has nothing much to do with abstinence.
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The World Health Organisation prescribes condoms or sexual abstinence for at least six months for those returning from areas where Zika is spreading.
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And it may actually harm patients by increasing stigma and subjecting them to spiritual and abstinence-based programs that aren't realistic or effective.
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Referred to as the "safe choice" more often than the practice of abstinence, Tim Kaine is about as boring as the undertaking itself.
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A recent Planned Parenthood poll confirms just how unpopular abstinence-only education is, with only 16.5 percent of likely voters favoring the term.
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Some studies show that the overdose death rate after twenty-eight-day abstinence programs is higher than that seen in active heroin addiction.
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State lawmakers in Colorado on Wednesday will debate legislation that would ban public schools in the state from teaching abstinence-only sex education.
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Thirty-seven states require abstinence be covered or stressed in such courses, while 13 states require sex education courses to be medically accurate.
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There is a cottage industry of activists and campaigners who cling to an abstinence-only approach when it comes to nicotine and tobacco.
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Keeping your sperm count high enough to make the grade means at least two — more often three — days of abstinence before each donation.
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Fletcher" are mundane, and the stakes aren't exactly momentous, even compared with the petit-bourgeois dramas of "Little Children" and "The Abstinence Teacher.
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Some working in the field feel abstinence programs are safer because they don't carry the risk of simply replacing one drug with another.
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Of these, only the length of marijuana abstinence was found to significantly affect the association between chronic marijuana use and reduced cognitive functioning.
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In 2013, he turned his focus to addiction in pregnancy after the increase of drug use in pregnancy and neonatal abstinence were noted.
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Unfortunately, by doubling down on abstinence programs and gutting evidence-based sexual health promotion, we risk halting, perhaps even reversing these positive trends.
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Or, if even that is asking too much, maybe just have him stop giving preference to abstinence-only education over more effective programs.
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When the center opened in June, staffers from the hospital visited to share what works best for babies with neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS).
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Regardless of its proven benefits, the Trump administration canceled funding for 81 projects in the TPP program, while increasing funds for abstinence programs.
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This decision comes after the school revised the aforementioned code of conduct to remove homosexuality from its abstinence list, according to previous reports.
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Some of them report receiving only abstinence-only education in public schools here in liberal Massachusetts, which has no mandated sex-ed curriculum.
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Asked what was the safest behavior, a girl said, "Not doing it," and was surprised to learn that "abstinence" meant the same thing.
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The Trump administration has decreased sex education funding, promoted abstinence-only education, and redirected funds for preventing teen pregnancy to anti-abortion groups.
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Ms. Alves has provided few details about the budget and scope of the abstinence campaign, which is to be rolled out next month.
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Rigorous scientific evidence — and young people themselves — tells us that abstinence-only-until-marriage programs, no matter the packaging, won't get us there.
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But experts note that the conflict is fading: Neither condoms nor abstinence has stopped the AIDS epidemic among gay Americans or heterosexual Africans.
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It is an outgrowth of Old Testament ideas of priestly abstinence during sacrifices, extended to reflect the daily responsibilities of a Christian priest.
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Trump was briefed about Ohio's critical opioid epidemic and how the hospital is handling the spike in babies born with neonatal abstinence syndrome.
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Early in her tenure, Trump zeroed in on the particularly difficult sub-category of drug addiction in Neo-natal Abstinence Syndrome, or NAS.
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Conversely, we know that strategies that do not involve MAT can endanger people's lives—particularly after periods of abstinence, due to decreased tolerance.
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Possibly this internet abstinence (or "willful illiteracy," as he calls it) accounts for how Goldbarth's many disparate references feel so honestly come by.
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There are two approaches to treatment, and Tess was failed by both of them: on one side, kind but abstinence-oriented recovery coaches and, on the other, M.A.T. Suboxone (buprenorphine with the opioid-blocking drug naloxone) and methadone prevent the suffering of withdrawal and extend lives by cutting overdose deaths in half or more compared with abstinence-based programs alone.
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For the past few decades there has been a large push to end the abstinence-only sex education implemented by many schools across the U.S. Several studies have found that an abstinence-only education does not work, as it is becoming increasingly unlikely to expect young people to remain abstinent until they are married, considering the increasing age of marriage.
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So while Mean Girls is a go-to comedy for movie night, the reality of abstinence-only sex education is nothing to laugh at.
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In the early 2000s, very few hospitals in the United States specialized in neonatal opioid withdrawal treatment (generally called neonatal abstinence syndrome, or NAS).
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In 20173, the Congressional General Accountability Office concluded that the global gag rule, coupled with abstinence promotion, was impeding the global fight against HIV.
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Peyote worship preserved their culture and identity and nurtured an ethos of self-respect, particularly abstinence from the alcohol that was destroying their societies.
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And by the early aughts, America was not only funneling money into schools teaching abstinence, but into faith-based organizations touting those same principles.
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Health advocates worry that the new guidance emphasizing abstinence-only programs could have harmful repercussions for all students, but specifically one community: LGBTQ+ teens.
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Those who advocate for abstinence-only educations argue that comprehensive sex ed can lead to "promiscuity," while AOUMs programs are engineered to curb that.
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But by prioritizing abstinence-only programs in their new funding guidelines, the Trump administration is effectively trying to reshape sex ed in the country.
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" Throughout the two-week session, Trump administration officials discussed shifting international policy on women toward abstinence-oriented education and teaching women sexual "refusal skills.
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That funding would come with an emphasis on "sexual delay" and "sexual risk avoidance," which are terms used by advocates to mean abstinence education.
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Ciara and her hubby-to-be's wedding night has been, er, highly anticipated since the revelation that the pair is practicing abstinence until marriage.
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More common are cash-only clinics, or abstinence-based programs that bank on willpower instead of the addiction medications that have proved more effective.
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That trend is a critical mistake, say experts, because barrier protection is one of the only ways -- besides abstinence -- to keep STDs at bay.
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You can say what you like about morality and values and abstinence and sexual mores, but I have news for you: Teenagers have sex.
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Making a lifelong commitment to god which involves abstinence, unquestioning obedience, and a habit isn't exactly a relatable experience for most people in 2017.
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What's important here, though, is that researchers have been racking up data and evidence for decades showing that abstinence-only sex education isn't effective.
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The study authors compared these rates from 1998-2013 in 22 sub-Saharan African nations, including the areas where the abstinence campaign was introduced.
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While "sexual risk avoidance" may sound nice, it's really just a rebranding of abstinence-only-until-marriage, which the new trading cards effectively illustrate.
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Dangerous that #Trump and Co. (Pence esp.) are eliminating few remaining people willing to push back against harmful policies, like abstinence-only sex ed.
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They wind up using old textbooks because they've been in the buildings for years and they're free—and all of them are abstinence-only.
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Opioid abuse during pregnancy has risen dramatically in recent years, contributing to a spike in opioid-dependent neonatal patients and Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS).
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The program began in 2015 with funding for diverse organizations, some of which included abstinence education, in 39 states working to end teen pregnancy.
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Abstinence-only education, for example, could be treated preferentially based on community desires despite scientific evidence that they are ineffective in delaying sexual debut.
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And the administration's newest HHS addition — Valerie Huber — is one of the most vocal advocates for harmful and misleading abstinence-only-until-marriage programs.
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Huber was previously the president of Ascend, formerly the National Abstinence Education Association — a misnomer for anyone who believes education should include accurate information.
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"In communities like mine where it's abstinence-only education, young people are getting actual information about sexuality in fanfiction," said the Utah professor Jamison.
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Instead, they teach abstinence and offer a natural family planning program that helps women track their fertility so they can avoid or achieve pregnancy.
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" Disappointment plagues the characters in Perrotta's novels, from the disaffected parents in " Little Children " to the divorced sex-education instructor in " The Abstinence Teacher .
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Specifically, cognitive functioning appeared to return to normal after about 72 hours of marijuana abstinence -- a threshold identified in previous studies, according to Scott.
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But even with the addition of water and other dietary measures—like continuing abstinence from coffee and alcohol—the ACV didn't do a thing.
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Faith-based crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs)—which espouse anti-choice, anti-birth-control, and pro-abstinence values—have historically existed outside the medical system.
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We can appreciate and support the work he is doing to address the needs of babies with neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) and their families.
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Many people who have heard the phrase neonatal abstinence syndrome may know that it applies to babies who are exposed to opioids during pregnancy.
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Alcoholics Anonymous not only produced higher rates of abstinence and remission, but it also did so at a lower cost, the Cochrane review found.
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But the primary question these studies were designed to answer—whether ibogaine could produce long-term abstinence—was more challenging to resolve than expected.
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Indeed, even the older Clinton supporters blamed the "geriatrics" who allegedly didn't vote for her instead of the candidate that led to their abstinence.
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How history will judge him for his abstinence remains to be seen, but until then, there are 43 other imbibers-in-chief to ponder.
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The abstinence in this case was real — the men drank juice out of wineglasses — and the event began with the singing of a hymn.
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And while I'm not ready to commit to a month of total purchased lunch abstinence, I'm game to see how long I can last.
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Advocating abstinence to teens hasn't proven very effective with regard to sex, and the same is likely to be true for sexting, researchers say.
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But activists in the American temperance movement – which by then had become more about abstinence and intertwined with evangelical Protestantism – didn't buy the argument.
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These could include the ability of the product to reduce cravings, help maintain abstinence from cigarettes or address speed of delivery of the nicotine.
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At 15, she became fascinated by Father Divine and his religion, which preached a gospel of self-help, abstinence, economic independence and social equality.
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Studies show that abstinence-only programs don't delay sexual activity, but do give young people false and dangerous perceptions about sexual health and relationships.
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But it has long been criticized by conservatives for its focus on comprehensive sex education, which can include teaching about safe sex and abstinence.
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For expanded medication access to be most effective, doctors need to be able to prescribe simply as harm reduction—without requiring abstinence or counseling.
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Studies have repeatedly shown that abstinence-only education increases rates of teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, while comprehensive sex education lowers such risks.
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Harlow says the grant announcement invites groups to push ineffective, abstinence-only programs for teens and adults, regardless of people's health needs and desires.
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Those partners include Lily's Place, a West Virginia clinic that treats babies born with neonatal abstinence syndrome, the National Institutes of Health and Microsoft.
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As governor he voted to defund abstinence-only education and signed legislation to expand Medicaid coverage to include family planning for low-income women.
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But a small number used cryptomarkets to buy drugs for the first time or to reengage with drug use after long periods of abstinence.
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The biggest takeaway, the authors concluded, was that children born with neonatal abstinence syndrome, or NAS, performed progressively worse on testing as they got older.
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The original coverage at Babe was focused on tamer stories about things like female athletes and opinion pieces about Piers Morgan and abstinence-only education.
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Kurz, who is just 31, has never acquired the habit and even shuns coffee, a rare abstinence in a country with a celebrated cafe culture.
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It's 2016, a time of easy-access porn and sex(t) positivity, yet we still spend millions on abstinence-only programs and outdated lesson plans.
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The New York Mets prospect was rumored to be dating Olivia Culpo a few years ago and allegedly broke up because of his abstinence pledge.
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Wade has not been overturned, same-sex marriage is the law of the land, and federal funding for abstinence-only sex education is under fire.
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In October, the singer confirmed to the world that she and Wilson did indeed finally break their much-discussed abstinence vows by announcing her pregnancy.
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David Meyer, executive director for the Jewish schools support network PaJes, denied the guidance allowed schools to avoid LGBT+ topics and teach abstinence-based lessons.
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Campaigners also criticized concessions to faith schools, fearing the promotion of marriage and of a moral stance on issues from abstinence to same-sex relationships.
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"If prevention information was given out widely then we could curb these abortion cases," said Joseph Peter Kamande, director of programming at charity Abstinence Kenya.
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The push toward abstinence messages accompanied policing efforts to comb cities for drug offenders and sentence convicts to mandatory prison terms of years or decades.
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In a country where politicians and religious leaders preach youth abstinence, it's no surprise that sex ed has been taken off the school curriculum completely.
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And limits on that advertising, as well as taxes, restrictions on retail sales, ads promoting tobacco abstinence and other measures have been shown to work.
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To borrow a phrase from abstinence classes: when you're taking drugs from an illicit lab, you're also taking the drugs that lab made before it.
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But it's radical in the context of a national fixation on abstinence, America having yet to implement any legal SIFs despite some encouraging recent campaigns.
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Other studies looking at total alcohol consumption have linked light to moderate drinking with a lower risk of diabetes than abstinence, researchers note in Diabetologia.
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The analysis included information on fertility status, age, ejaculation abstinence time, semen collection method, sperm count method and geographic location at the level of continent.
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The most popular questions the service gets are about preserving virginity and abstinence, while in the US, questions about birth control tend to flood in.
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Capela's abstinence from deep makes him an outlier on a team that has prioritized floor spacing over every other NBA skill in building its roster.
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At the same time, evangelical opposition to sex education caused many school systems to eliminate it altogether; ultimately, many of these schools taught abstinence instead.
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The administration in February announced new requirements for Title X grants that would Planned Parenthood argues favors organizations that emphasize abstinence and natural family planning.
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Detox programs that taper people to opioid abstinence have not been shown to reduce overdose death risk—and without further support, may actually increase it.
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Linda knew what to expect when her daughter was born with neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) — the tremors, the inconsolable crying, the light and sound sensitivity.
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President Barack Obama's move last week to cut federal funding for abstinence-only sex ed in public schools has been lauded as bold and momentous.
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"Things can get out of balance when physical touching is involved," she said, opening the abstinence pamphlet that she uses with her high-school students.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a study in 2016 that determined the number of neonatal abstinence cases tripled between 1999 and 2013.
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"The risk for stroke will almost certainly go down with abstinence," said Dr. James Januzzi of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston.
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In October, Trump traveled to Huntington, West Virginia, to visit Lily's Place, a facility that provides medical care to infants born with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome.
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Help for Drug Addicted Babies —The Centers for Disease Control reports a record increase in the number of babies born with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS).
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This is particularly true of studies of 12-step programs in which researchers find higher rates of abstinence among people who stay in the programs.
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Abstinence is "a hard thing for people to do, and I don't know that we give people enough space to grow and develop," he said.
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Once more, Steven Crowder worked for Fox News where he wrote a column advocating abstinence until he was fired after making fun of Sean Hannity.
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You'll have phrases such as "indulgence instead of abstinence," but not being a cult member I don't walk around with these things committed to memory.
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Roughly 203 percent of Texas public school districts taught abstinence-only sex ed, according to a study released last month from the Texas Freedom Network.
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What's even crazier is that 39 states require abstinence be included—and 27 states mandate by law that is be stressed as the preferred choice.
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Abstinence and faithfulness programs have been a staple of PEPFAR (at one point a third of all funds were required to go to these programs).
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For example, many people with BFRBs say that complete abstinence from picking or pulling is an unhelpful goal that may magnify self-criticism and frustration.
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It is a horrible condition that is heartbreaking to watch babies experience, but it is more appropriately and more accurately described as neonatal abstinence syndrome.
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To avoid risk of sexual transmission of Zika while traveling, men and women should practice safer sex, including the consistent use of condoms, or abstinence.
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Today, more babies are born in Scioto County suffering from the opioid withdrawal condition known as neonatal abstinence syndrome than anywhere else in the state.
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So the abstinence-only models put forth by [Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous] are historically what most of the recovery industry has been centered around.
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Because self-reports of smoking abstinence are not considered reliable, researchers measured the quantities of carbon monoxide in the participants' breath, a more precise validation.
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During the Obama administration, funding for abstinence-only sex education was shifted toward more comprehensive sex education — and teen pregnancy dropped nationwide by 41 percent.
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Her grandfather agreed to fund another 28-day round of rehab in Roanoke, Tess's fourth, at a cost of $20,000 — in another abstinence-only facility.
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He said he hasn't touched heroin or other opiates since his ibogaine treatment last October, and is now closing in on one year of abstinence.
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It has pushed ineffective, abstinence-only education while chipping away at access to contraception and giving hope to those who wish to see Roe v.
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The lion has simply stocked up on protein for a long period of abstinence, and the ability to do so is a valuable evolutionary trait.
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By perpetuating inaccurate or incomplete information, abstinence-only programs are a classic case of "information manipulation"—an attempt to misuse information to influence individual choice.
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Rigorous research accumulated over the past 20 years has consistently shown that abstinence-only programs are not effective at preventing pregnancy, HIV or other STIs.
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They note that although maternal kratom use could theoretically cause neonatal abstinence syndrome, the case did not explicitly link kratom to the infant's withdrawal symptoms.
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Before joining HHS, Huber criticised the TPP program for its emphasis on comprehensive sex ed, which can include teachings about contraception, safe sex and abstinence.
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Many believe that increased use of effective contraception is the primary reason for this decline; contraception, of course, is not part of abstinence-only education.
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He explained that other targets aside from abstinence would be considered when evaluating therapies, such as how treatment is impacting emergency-room visits or overdoses.
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She'll meet with families affected by neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) and staff at the Jefferson University Medical Center Maternal Addiction, Treatment, Education and Research program.
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However, too many young people still aren't getting any sex education at all, or they're getting shaming, stigmatizing, and inaccurate abstinence-only-until-marriage programs.
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Heat-free methods like meticulous air-drying are thrown around as alternatives, but totally advising against heat is as successful as abstinence-only sex ed.
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This visit specifically focused on babies born with medical issues, such as Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome, as a result of mothers who abused opioids while pregnant.
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She resigned her HHS post last week, replaced temporarily by Valerie Huber, a social conservative who has actively supported abstinence sex education programs in schools.
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"The fact is we are in many ways worlds apart in our approaches," he said, providing the administration's emphasis on abstinence education as an example.
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" Therefore, he argued, contraception ("otherwise than by total abstinence from coition") and abortion "are alike disastrous to a woman's mental, moral, and physical well-being.
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Abstinence-only education advocates such as Valerie Huber have been appointed to influential positions at organizations like the US Department of Health and Human Services.
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It's worth noting that babies cannot be "born addicted," but can exhibit symptoms of neonatal abstinence syndrome if a woman uses opioid drugs while pregnant.
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As you begin experimenting with longer and longer periods of abstinence, try to develop an interest in the specific situations where FOMA kicks in for you.
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During the session Trinity's peers shared horror stories about sex ed classes, including abstinence pledges that students are asked to sign in front of their peers.
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There's a good, if sometimes contradictory, amount of observational research suggesting that moderate drinking can provide benefits like a longer lifespan, when compared to total abstinence.
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The denomination, founded by Swedish immigrants in 1885, considers heterosexual marriage, faithfulness in heterosexual marriage and abstinence for single individuals the standard, according to their website.
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Beyond assistance for needy new mothers, the center also gives advice on how to avoid another pregnancy: abstinence for the unmarried, "natural" methods for the married.
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If the male partner in a couple planning pregnancy has symptoms of the Zika virus, the period of safe abstinence should be six months, he added.
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"At the federal level, there's not a mandate for sex ed or abstinence-only [education],"Jesseca Boyer, senior policy manager at the Guttmacher Institute, told Refinery217.
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Students are taught that abstinence is the only surefire way to avoid physical consequences like unintended pregnancies or STIs, but also psychological and social consequences, too.
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In seeking an injunction against awarding grants under the new criteria, Planned Parenthood said research has shown an abstinence-only focus on teen pregnancy is ineffective.
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Last year, The Trump administration announced they would cut funding two years early, at the three-year mark, after debuting new grant guidelines that emphasize abstinence.
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In the abstinence group, the biomakers were reduced by an aggregate of 85.3 percent, compared with an 85 percent reduction in the groups that used Juul.
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In 2015, Montgomery had the highest rate of STDs in America, which is hardly a surprise given that Alabama is an abstinence-only sex education state.
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Amanda Marcotte wrote last year that the 2015 decision in Texas to fund abstinence-only education likely passed because of the anecdotes offered up by supporters.
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This, after all, is the universe of abstinence pledges and old-fashioned courtship, where parents build their entire lives around shielding their children from worldly temptations.
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In 21971, President Bill Clinton 's welfare-reform act allocated fifty million dollars a year to abstinence-training programs, giving C.P.C.s an infusion of federal funding.
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In 21979 and 21981, the Wabash Valley C.P.C. received twenty-six thousand five hundred dollars to teach abstinence to public-school students in surrounding Vigo County.
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Bristol becomes an advocate for teen abstinence, but faces a lot of backlash from those who call her a "hypocrite" due to her own past actions.
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Pikeville, Kentucky (CNN)Perhaps it was the abstinence pledge she felt forced to sign or the promise ring she was told to slip on her finger.
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Abstinence is a one-size fit all approach that fails to take account of the full spectrum of circumstances and preferences that make up tobacco consumers.
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Abstinence-only education would see a $10 million funding boost under the spending bill released by Congress Wednesday night and advanced by the House Thursday morning.
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Within days after delivery, babies exposed to opioids during pregnancy can develop neonatal abstinence syndrome, which can include increased muscle tone, tremors, sweating, vomiting, and diarrhea.
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Between 1999 and 2013, the proportion of infants with neonatal abstinence syndrome surged from 1.5 in 1,000 to 6 in 1,000, researchers note in JAMA Pediatrics.
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I finally started on recovery medications, which allowed me the physical remedial I needed to connect to other peer supports and eventually enter abstinence-based recovery.
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People who reported SMART as their primary group seemed to have worse substance use outcomes, and there were lower odds of total abstinence among LifeRing members.
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An updated systematic review published Wednesday by the Cochrane Collaboration found that A.A. leads to increased rates and lengths of abstinence compared with other common treatments.
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Republicans sought money for a sexual abstinence program, for instance, while Democrats pushed for limits on greenhouse gas emissions and more collective bargaining power for unions.
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Everyone seems to have a different opinion of what kids should learn about sex, from abstinence-only policies to graphic depictions of how babies get made.
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In recent months, grassroots groups and policy reform advocates have made significant strides to accomplish this paradigm shift in drug policy from abstinence to harm reduction.
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There is also intriguing preliminary evidence that cannabidiol, a major component of marijuana, can blunt craving in individuals with opioid dependence following a period of abstinence.
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And now Trump's Department of Health and Human Services is being stuffed with people who appear to believe that the only good birth control is abstinence.
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One reason that the abstinence-only programs have shown little or no evidence of effectiveness may be that sexual experiences for many young people involve coercion.
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A now-deleted clip from a user named Nurse Holly was widely criticized this month for stating that abstinence is the best form of STI prevention.
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Emma Lee, a tiny infant born with neonatal abstinence syndrome, was the first baby to arrive at Hope on Haven Hill on opening day last week.
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Proponents of abstinence-only sexual education argue that the programs teach more than pregnancy prevention — they also build self-control and self-respect in young people.
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Twenty-six states require abstinence be a factor in public sex education, though in most cases it is promoted alongside information on contraceptives and sexual orientation.
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Trump noted her visit last month to Cincinnati Children's Hospital, a facility that is at the forefront on studies of and treatments for neonatal abstinence syndrome.
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The study also showed that cannabis abstinence is associated with improvements in verbal learning that appear to occur largely in the first week following last use.
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During my week of attempted Trump abstinence, I noticed something deeper: He has taken up semipermanent residence on every outlet of any kind, political or not.
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"We definitely are seeing a shift," said Kelly Marcum, a government affairs legislative assistant at the Family Research Council in Washington, which supports abstinence-only education.
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London (CNN)Young British people are drinking less alcohol than a decade ago, with abstinence becoming "mainstream" among teenagers and young adults, a new study reveals.
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The announcement for funding favors programs that prioritize abstinence and natural family planning methods like the rhythm method, while not mentioning the word contraception even once.
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But it's no surprise that they're going to revive or pump more money into abstinence education, which continued to receive funds all throughout the Obama administration.
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And in this life full of carnal sins, abstinence is our only final line of defense against poor decisions during the cold winters of 'Cuffing season.
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The researchers adjusted their results for factors that could affect semen quality, such as age, body weight, genital malformations, time from ejaculation to analysis and abstinence period.
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I would go to a local head shop or go online and buy from a good source because that's the only way to really pass excepting abstinence.
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When it comes to school-based or government funded sex education, we're likely looking at a return to the abstinence-obsessed Bush era–or possibly something worse.
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Bryan allegedly admitted to sleeping in the same bed as Isabella, according to MLive, who according to UpNorthLive was born with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome, or narcotic withdrawal.
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But because media often sensationalizes addiction—highlighting severe cases, and featuring teetotaler abstinence as the morally acceptable way to recover—it only feels like he was unusual.
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I think N.A. and A.A. and other abstinence-only models believe it's just giving one drug for another drug—you're not truly clean unless you're on nothing.
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What we need are abstinence crèches in pubs, areas where teetotallers can meet other non-drinkers and don't feel wildly out of whack with one's drinking companions.
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Rather, programs that provide young people with information about both abstinence and birth control have a better track record of helping young people to delay sexual behavior.
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It can be hard to convey the danger of abstinence-only sex ed programs, but a new set of trading cards is hoping to do exactly that.
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"These trading cards highlight some of the lessons that are actually used in abstinence-only sexual risk avoidance programs," said Samantha Dercher, federal policy director at SIECUS.
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These include avoiding travel to areas where Zika is prevalent, wearing long sleeves and pants, using bug spray, and practicing safe sex through abstinence or condom use.
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But abstinence is, of course, the most effective way to not get pregnant or get an STD — and it's one that nearly all states feel comfortable emphasizing.
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During that time, Catholics (and the few Protestants who celebrate Lent) are expected to prepare to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus with prayer, fasting, and even abstinence.
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This style of practice and advocacy that focuses on minimizing damage associated with drug use—rather than demanding immediate and complete abstinence—is known as harm reduction.
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Thanks to increased research that's traced the failings of abstinence-heavy teaching, educators in the US are talking now about developing the "softer skills" of sex ed.
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They maintain that puritanical views repress frank talk and warp natural urges, as in sexual-abstinence programmes (widespread in the South) that sometimes fail to mention contraception.
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Last week, she traveled to Philadelphia to meet with families affected by neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS), a condition that afflicts babies exposed to opioids in the womb.
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Apple's abstinence from those chips could well have been motivated by those very same challenges, which Intel will surely have prioritized to fix with its new generation.
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Dr. Bridges argued that claim highlighted a larger problem: a lack of comprehensive sex education in Utah public schools, where abstinence-only is the only approved curriculum.
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As part of "Be Best," Trump said she wanted to promote programs that educate families about Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome and the impact of drug use on children.
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The study did not meet its main goal of the four-week continuous abstinence rate at weeks 9 through 12 for Chantix compared to placebo, Pfizer said.
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The first is to guide policies in support of an abstinence-only approach; the second is to document the risks and hazards presented by tobacco-related products.
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So we've got states like Oklahoma, where it's against the law to refer students to any medical facility that provides abortions and abstinence-only states like Mississippi.
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Recovery researchers call college an "abstinence-hostile environment," since it's often seen as a consequence-free, "Animal House"–like oasis that revolves around finding the next party.
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" Conversely, "states that taught comprehensive sex and/or HIV education and covered abstinence along with contraception and condom use... tended to have the lowest teen pregnancy rates.
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Researchers followed up at six months then 12 months, measuring involvement in the groups and various substance use outcomes, including abstinence from drinking and alcohol-related problems.
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These changes mean crisis pregnancy centers and providers that only promote abstinence could be eligible for grants for the first time since Title X's inception in 1970.
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On the other side are those who believe that the best way to prevent unplanned pregnancies and the spread of STIs is to promote abstinence, full stop.
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The W.H.O. also suggested that men and women who visit and return from areas with mosquito-borne Zika transmission practice protected sex or abstinence for six months.
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"Not only do kids have sex when you have an abstinence-only curriculum, they get pregnant more than those who have a comprehensive sexual education," said Breuner.
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One review of the research found that comprehensive sex education delayed the initiation of sex and increased condom and contraceptive use, while abstinence-only programs did not.
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Access to accurate sex education for all our children that includes but is not limited to abstinence has also been shown to reduce the number of abortions.
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But in the years since, social conservatives in Congress have once again put ideology over evidence, funneling ever-growing amounts of taxpayer dollars into abstinence-only programs.
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Some school abstinence-only programs inflate condom failure rates, for example, to discourage their use, while other programs overstate the prevalence and effects of sexually transmitted diseases.
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The Teen Pregnancy Prevention program (TPP) became the target of the administration after the hire of Valerie Huber, the former head of a national abstinence education group.
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The Trump administration has issued new rules for funding programs to prevent teenage pregnancy, favoring those that promote abstinence and not requiring as rigorous evidence of effectiveness.
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In 2012, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention conducted two meta-analyses: one on 23 abstinence programs and the other on 66 comprehensive sexual education programs.
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Debra Hauser, the president of Advocates for Youth, an organization dedicated to promoting sexual health among young people, said Obria's abstinence-only approach has long been discredited.
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The first lady has included the opioid epidemic as one part of her three-pronged Be Best program of helping kids, specifically focused on neonatal abstinence syndrome.
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At the six-month mark, the hearts of the drinkers spent 1.2% of the time in Afib versus 0.5% of the time among volunteers assigned to abstinence.
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It recently axed federal funding for pregnancy prevention programs and appointed an abstinence-only advocate to an important position at the Department of Health and Human Services.
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But conservatives almost immediately pushed back, calling for sex education to focus on abstinence, and the messages students got about sex could be confusing — even in California.
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Temperance societies filled Cellardyke with abstinence literature for years, and the writers of the East of Fife Record obviously did their best to bring iniquities to light.
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Abstinence-only education not only fails to delay the age when teens first have sex, but also fails to reduce unintended pregnancies and the spread of STDs.
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Chronic drinkers display reductions in memory, attention, and planning, as well as impaired emotional processes and social cognition — and these can persist even after years of abstinence.
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He added that the period of safe abstinence should be six months if the male partner in a couple planning pregnancy has symptoms of the Zika virus.
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HHS also issued new guidelines this year for federal teenage pregnancy prevention grants, which favor programs that promote abstinence rather than a full range of contraceptive choices.
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We can put a dent in those markets by supplying treatment, including—for those who don't yet want abstinence—maintenance on the drugs they are already taking.
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We know you had good intentions when you committed to doing both Dry January and No-Spend January, but you're only human — and that's a lot of abstinence.
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While some efforts have been made in this direction, there is a longstanding tendency in the Catholic tradition to value sexual abstinence over sexual relationships, committed or otherwise.
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In 2014, the institute solicited Mukamal to plan a six-year study of 7,000 subjects at risk of heart disease, pitting a daily alcoholic drink against total abstinence.
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Colletti joined the cast in 2007 as Chase Adams, a member of the high school abstinence club who later becomes a bartender at Tree Hill's popular nightclub Tric.
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Unlike abstinence-based recovery programs for alcohol and other substances, overcoming this dependency requires addicts to find a way to reintegrate pieces of the technology into their lives.
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That's why Easter celebrations are preceded by Lent (a time of abstinence and penance), the Easter Vigil (when new believers are baptised), and, sometimes, the sacrament of confession.
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The solution for Malthus, a minister for the Church of England, was to preach abstinence and delayed marriage to keep population growth in check — especially among the poor.
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Since the law was enacted, the number of newborns diagnosed with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome has skyrocketed – from 4,991 cases in 2003 to 27,315 in 2013, federal data show.
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Editor's note: This commentary was updated to clarify a passage on the danger of resuming the use of opioids, even at the same dosage, after "cold turkey" abstinence.
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"In general, comprehensive sex education includes lesson plans on abstinence," says John Santelli, a population and family health professor at Columbia University and lead author of the study.
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The organizations objected to the criteria's focus on abstinence, easier access to primary health care, increasing family participation and cooperation with faith-based organizations, according to the ruling.
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When she asks students to list the forms of birth control they know about, she says, 9 out of 10 can only come up with abstinence and condoms.
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Lest we forget: This is a politician who, in 2003, signed the so-called "partial-birth" abortion ban into law and whose administration promoted abstinence-only sex-ed.
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The Trump administration's decision to cut off TPPP is part of a larger move toward abstinence-only sex ed, which advocates have rebranded as "sexual risk avoidance" education.
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Since the law was enacted, the number of newborns diagnosed with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome has skyrocketed, to 27,315 cases in 2013 from 4,991 in 2003, federal data shows.
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Access to safer, better-paying indoor workplaces — brothels, strip clubs, and massage parlors — is often premised on abstinence from drugs, to reflect the "classy" image such venues promote.
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And among his appointments to the Department of Health and Human Services was Valerie Huber, formerly the president of an organization once called the National Abstinence Education Association.
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It's an attempt to investigate more deeply the middle ground between the poles of addiction and abstinence, at a time when our culture is sending out dueling messages.
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The abstinence advocate sounded off on Tina Fey's Saturday Night Live parody of her mother Sarah Palin, and also had some words to share about the #OscarsSoWhite controversy.
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Researchers focused on what's known as neonatal abstinence syndrome, a condition akin to withdrawal that develops when babies essentially become addicted to drugs their mothers use during pregnancy.
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The organization claims that the Trump administration made unlawful changes to the program's funding guidance in order to emphasize "abstinence-only-until-marriage" approaches to curbing teen pregnancy.
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It appears that grantees will be able to follow funding requirements set by the Obama administration, not new criteria issued under Trump that is focused more on abstinence.
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"The defendant caused an opioid crisis that is evidenced by increased rates of addiction, overdose deaths and neonatal abstinence syndrome, in Oklahoma," Balkman wrote in the initial verdict.
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A friendlier, less disciplined sister of abstinence, this philosophy aims to reduce the overall level of drug use among people who are unable or simply unwilling to stop.
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That is: Many treatment centers expel people for relapsing—and those who drop out are often doing so because rehab has not made them better at sustaining abstinence.
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Between 22019 and 2016, the state saw an increase from 500 to about 850 in cases of neonatal abstinence syndrome — a consequence of babies born with opioid addiction.
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Each day around 100 people visit and around 3,500 needles are exchanged, says David Pesek, who runs the centre; every week, a few users move into abstinence programmes.
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Before his illustrious podcasting career, Steven Crowder worked for Fox News where he wrote a column advocating abstinence until he was fired after making fun of Sean Hannity.
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This type of abstinence is more common than you'd think — and even women who do masturbate often sideline it in order to prioritize other (seemingly more important) things.
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At the same time the Trump administration has been angling to invest in ineffective abstinence-based sex education, they've quietly been cutting funding for approaches that do work.
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Results showed that the one-year abstinence rate was 18% (79 people) in the e-cigarette group versus about 10% (44 people) in the traditional nicotine-replacement group.
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When people embark on a lifestyle of abstinence, they might begin to feel lonely because they no longer have their friends who were drinking with them, Humphreys said.
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Democrats argue the legislation doesn't do enough to help out individuals and families, and is full of unrelated conservative items, like the extension of an abstinence education program.
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Even as smartphones have made it easier for teenagers to watch porn, sex education in the United States — where abstinence-based sex education remains the norm — is meager.
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Trump told staff members and former clients of Lily's Place, which was established in 2014 and has so far treated around 190 babies suffering from neonatal abstinence syndrome.
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Professor Fingarette challenged the theory that alcoholism is a progressive disease that can be dealt with only by abstinence, and he concluded that treatment could include moderated drinking.
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In both "Election" and "The Abstinence Teacher," Perrotta features the perspectives of educators — and other members of the community — as he wryly plumbs the pathos of the suburbs.
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The chief of staff to the assistant secretary responsible for adolescent health programs, including teenage pregnancy prevention grants, is Valerie Huber, who previously ran an abstinence advocacy group.
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Consider the following: Abstinence-only programs violate ethical principles Medical ethics hold that individuals should have access to the information they need to make healthy and responsible decisions.
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In spite of these inherent flaws, the Trump administration and social conservatives in Congress continue to call for dramatic increases in funding for abstinence-only-until-marriage programs.
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" From the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the U.S.: "SIECUS is shocked but not surprised by the Trump administration's latest anti-science, pro-abstinence appointee within HHS.
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There is evidence "that chronic use of cannabis can produce persisting decline of cognitive [or] memory function, even after prolonged abstinence and no THC in blood," Ramaekers said.
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In the abstinence group, 61% were able to cut out alcohol completely but one quarter of the volunteers couldn't get their weekly consumption below two drinks per week.
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Mardi Gras is celebrated on Shrove Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday, which is the beginning of Lent, a period of reflection and abstinence on the Catholic calendar.
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More states than ever are adopting grant programs like Positive Alternatives and more public schools are contracting with CPCs to provide abstinence-only sex ed programming to students.
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The majority also turned their backs on proven methods of avoiding pregnancy, eliminating funding for the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program (TPPP) while steering funding toward abstinence-only education.
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Many American schools provide no sex education or just abstinence-only sex education, discouraging all sexual contact until marriage without teaching prevention of sexually transmitted diseases, Moore said.
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As we experience increases in infants born with neonatal abstinence syndrome and increased rates of foster care, appropriate treatment for women with substance use disorders is sorely needed.
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Some remain temporarily housed outside of Bogotá, or within abstinence-only medical treatment, but the vast majority now live in other rough neighborhoods, where they continue to consume.
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Some attribute this abstinence approach to the patriarchy: Clearly we doctors know that moderate alcohol is safe (we don't!), and we just don't trust women with that knowledge.
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It's the reason they oppose the introduction of the HPV vaccine, because they had long used cancers related to HPV, which is sexually transmitted, to argue for abstinence.
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Two studies of patients with opioid dependence, in Russia and in the United States, found that Vivitrol was associated with increased abstinence and time in treatment, and reduced cravings.
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Because we weren't sleeping together — for Justin, abstinence was a firm commitment to his faith — we never tempted ourselves by going over to each other's apartments late at night.
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Or, at least, all those fear-mongering, abstinence-only sex ed teachers were greatly exaggerating the idea that condoms inherently have super-tiny holes for viruses to escape through.
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There are good reasons to suppress memories of frantic searches for somewhere to have a final cough-and-a-drag before the forced abstinence of a long-haul flight.
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The FDA, Gottlieb said, will issue guidance for drugmakers to promote the development of new addiction treatments and lay out the agency's interest in "novel, non-abstinence-based" products.
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It is unprecedented to give decision-making power for millions of dollars in family planning funding to just one individual, let alone someone who promotes abstinence only until marriage.
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Huber was president and CEO of the abstinence advocacy group Ascend before joining the administration and was recently promoted to senior policy adviser to the assistant secretary of health.
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Appointees changed the points system for evaluating applicants, giving less emphasis to "adequacy of the applicant's facilities and staff," while boosting those who promoted "natural family planning" and abstinence.
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Abstinence-only-until marriage programs (AOUMs), which heavily focus on "family values," teach young people that their only correct and moral path is delaying having sex until they're married.
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For the last two years, they have sought to prioritize funds for abstinence-based sex education programs, while cutting funds to science-based programs that take a comprehensive approach.
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This report emphasizes the importance of condom use or abstinence, as previously advised by the CDC for pregnant women whose male sexual partners have traveled to Zika-infected areas.
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But there are also nearly 20 million new STI cases occurring every year in the US, and the condom is the only non-abstinence contraception method effective against STIs.
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It's a thinly veiled tract — a piece of fictionalized propaganda in which the protagonist, Pozdnyshev, a confessed wife-killer, ventriloquizes Tolstoy's ideas about the moral necessity of sexual abstinence.
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She recalls the abstinence-only education she got in grade school and how two of the seven girls in her class got pregnant before the end of eighth grade.
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All of those policy changes were overseen by Valerie Huber, an HHS official who had been the president of Ascend, a group previously called the National Abstinence Education Association.
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Within three days he was showing signs of neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) — a clutch of problems that occur when a baby has been exposed in the womb to opioids.
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The occurrence of withdrawal from opioids, as well as the triggers to use opioids, are so severe that relapse is typical in an individual who tries to maintain abstinence.
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For example, Valerie Huber, Chief of Staff to the Assistant Secretary for Health at the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, promotes an abstinence-only education plan.
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"The idea of abstinence and faithfulness was driven by idiotic religious fundamentalism," says Stephen Lewis, the former UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa from 2001 to 2006.
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The organizing committee for the demonstrations said Muslims' abstinence from food and drink during the hot mornings and afternoons of Ramadan would be taken into account in further protests.
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There's an important trade-off, however: While abstaining from orgasms does indeed boost men's sperm count, longer abstinence periods are simultaneously linked to the release of lower-quality sperm.
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"It is clear that neonatal abstinence syndrome is a growing problem across the country," said Dr. William Carey, a pediatric researcher at Mayo Clinic Children's Center in Rochester, Minnesota.
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A notable advocate of abstinence is Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who invokes language borrowed from the long-ago "war on drugs" in framing substance abuse as a moral failing.
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"The urge to ban kratom is coming from this abstinence-only mindset," he says, arguing that transitioning people addicted to opioids to using kratom should be considered a success.
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Since the late 1990s, conservative activists — often with the help of conservative presidents — have steadily chipped away at sex education by funding and mandating abstinence-only policies in schools.
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The trend has puzzled some school administrators, who have banned the shirts only to face criticism, and other adults, who have wondered if youth abstinence is on the rise.
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"Especially for the liver transplant clinics or alcohol abuse clinics, it's important for them to recognize this rare condition, because they're the ones that monitor alcohol abstinence," he said.
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If Congress concurs, it will end the Obama-era effort to shift away from decades of reliance on abstinence-only programs, which showed little to no evidence of effectiveness.
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The government's abstinence campaign is being led by Ms. Alves, an evangelical pastor who calls herself "extremely Christian" and is among Mr. Bolsonaro's most popular and visible cabinet members.
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In addition, a dramatic increase in opioid use among pregnant women has resulted in a growing epidemic of babies born addicted, beginning their lives suffering through neonatal abstinence syndrome.
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While Pennsylvania standards only require that students learn about HIV, STDs and abstinence, my health class was relatively comprehensive, including information about contraceptives, LGBT terminology and drugs and alcohol.
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The fact that medical professionals also seem to love Tiktok, to the point of posting videos where they preach abstinence and accuse patients of "faking" illnesses, doesn't help either.
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For some adolescents, it meant a pitch for abstinence; others watched their teachers put condoms on bananas and attempt sketches of fallopian tubes that looked more like modern art.
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In Missouri, hospitals have experienced a 138 percent increase in visits for opioid abuse and a 538 percent increase in neonatal abstinence syndrome — babies born with severe opioid withdrawal.
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But in between, sex education in schools is often an antiseptic regurgitation of the science of reproduction mixed with healthy doses of the need for protection and, increasingly, abstinence.
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The program, created under former President Obama, funded organizations working to cut teen pregnancy rates and mostly focused on comprehensive sex ed, which can include contraception and abstinence teachings.
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The changes were led by Valerie Huber, an official with the Department of Health and Human Services who worked for an abstinence education advocacy group before joining the administration.
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The abstinence restriction would apply only if Mr. Herrera successfully completes the program and agrees to the terms of the probation, said Grant Loebs, the Twin Falls County prosecutor.
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In a marked departure from the previous administration, conservatives at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) are putting an emphasis on abstinence to reduce teen pregnancy rates.
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This common tactic used in abstinence-only programs spreads fear and stigma and fuels a harassment culture by promoting gender relations that devalue women and police their sexual activity.
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There also is a growing conversation about whether some update is needed to the bedrock 12-step program: It demands total abstinence but many people fail and ultimately die.
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Also, rigorous research accumulated over the past 20 years has consistently shown that abstinence-only programs do not have an overall impact on young people's age of first intercourse.
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While sex education classes are not mandatory in Colorado, proposed legislation that is widely expected to pass would bar the state's public and charter schools from abstinence-only education.
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Grab someone from the universe and start layering lasagna with them immediately, or spend January through March on (alleged) self-imposed abstinence watching many, many documentaries about serial killers.
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