nonabstinent

English

Etymology

non- +‎ abstinent

Adjective

nonabstinent (not comparable)

  1. Not abstinent; not practicing abstinence.
    • 2012, Mark B. Sobell, “Alternatives to Abstinence: Evidence, Issues and Some Problems”, in Peter E. Nathan, G. Alan Marlatt, editor, Alcoholism: New Directions in Behavioral Research and Treatment, page 179:
      Also of interest, nearly half of the total studies reporting successful nonabstinent outcomes were conducted outside the United States.
    • 2012, Kirk R. Blankstein, Janet Polivy, Self-Control and Self-Modification of Emotional Behavior:
      A second point of interest is that although successful nonabstinent outcomes have repeatedly been referred to as rare occurrences, a review of the literature presents a different picture.
    • 2016, Jennifer L. Stewart, April C. May, “Electrophysiology for addiction medicine: From methodology to conceptualization of reward deficits”, in Neuroscience for Addiction Medicine, page 78:
      Furthermore, abstinent cocaine users showed greater fronto-central late LPPs to cocaine picturres that the other two groups, whereas the nonabstinent cocaine users exhibited lower LPPs to positive and negative pictures than abstient users and controls.
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