sober

(sō′bər)

adj. sober·er, sober·est

1. Not intoxicated or affected by the use of alcohol or drugs.

2. Abstaining from or habitually abstemious in the use of alcoholic drink or other intoxicants: a former addict who has been sober for 10 years.

so′ber·ly adv.

so′ber·ness n.

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Yet the sobering station has funds to operate only through next month.

The sobering station managed to stay open over the past year with a patchwork of funds from Lane County, Eugene, Springfield and PeaceHealth Medical Center, but now that money is about to run out.

Save the sobering station

Second: 1 Rough Native, 2 Verbier, 3 Sobering Thought, 4 Fear No One, 5 Judicial T riggs, 6 Fear Zeus (m).

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If the station were to close, thousands of drunk or high people would be left to sober up on their own in public places, arrested by local police, or rushed to the nearest hospital emergency room, according to Willamette Family Inc., which operates the sobering station.

Sobering center faced with closure

"As a 17-year-old adolescent going to jail, that's a very sobering moment.

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