Marijuana Anonymous is a Twelve-step program for people with common desire to maintain abstinence from marijuana.

Through its emphasis on short-term behavioral goals, individualized counseling helps the patient develop coping strategies and tools to abstain from drug use and maintain abstinence.

MMT (methadone maintenance therapy) is prescribed to individuals who wish to abstain from illicit drug use but have failed to maintain abstinence from opiates for significant periods.

He is also sober and has been since undergoing a rehab program in 2002 (documented in the film Some Kind of Monster), maintaining total abstinence from alcohol.

The goal is to help the client maintain total abstinence from alcohol and drugs, and to establish healthy routines outside of a residential treatment facility.

Acamprosate has shown effectiveness for patients with severe dependence, helping them to maintain abstinence for several weeks or months.

A team of Edgehill clinicians published a survey of 181 patients, showing that 61 percent of them maintained continuous abstinence from alcohol six months after being discharged.

King asked if there was a parallel between maintaining abstinence and not wanting to suck her blood?

LifeRing encourages an experimental approach to maintaining abstinence from addictive drugs and its members are free to incorporate ideas from any source they find useful, including other addiction recovery groups.

Naltrexone treats the physical dependence on opioids, but further psychosocial interventions (such as counselling and group therapy) are often required to enable people to maintain abstinence.