anti-alcohol

Opposing booze consumption

Anti-alcohol describes opposition to alcoholic beverages or their consumption.

The term applies to movements, policies, or personal stances: anti-alcohol legislation, an anti-alcohol campaign.

Someone who is anti-alcohol may abstain themselves or advocate for broader restrictions.

The word carries echoes of temperance and prohibition movements.

advocacy

temperance

Habitual moderation in behavior

MADD · WCTU · teetotalism · campaign · activism · awareness · lobbying · reform · crusade · pledge

religious

haram

Forbidden by Islamic law

abstinence · teetotal · purity · Mormon · Muslim · Baptist · Methodist · Salvation Army · covenant · vow

policy

prohibition

Authoritative legal ban

zoning · advertising ban · warning label · rationing · bootlegging · speakeasy · 18th Amendment · local option · dry county · monopoly

health

liver damage

Harm to detoxifying organ

detox · recovery · sobriety · AA · twelve-step · sponsor · rehabilitation · intervention · counseling · relapse

social

designated driver

Abstaining volunteer behind wheel

dry January · non-drinker · teetotaler · peer pressure · stigma · intervention · domestic violence · drunk driving · accident · DUI

Categories
Opposites
stance toward alcohol consumption

anti-alcoholbibulous

Given to drink

convivial · wet · permissive · libertine · bacchanalian

temperance movement position

anti-alcoholwet

Saturated with liquid

repeal · libertarian · permissive · liberal

Family

anti, alcohol, alcoholic, alcoholism, alcohols, antiaircraft, antibody, antibiotic, antidote

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