Just a question I have a lot of friends who are recovering from opiate addiction and clean from them for years but drink and claim sobriety is that considered being sober?
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Sober from opiates yes. If alcohol was never their addiction and is not a trigger to other things than it’s fine with me. Had a counselor in rehab once, she drank, her addiction was heroin. She had been clean for years. Also I use marijuana but that was never my problem, alcohol is. So long to short, my personal opinion is it’s OK with me! 
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These scenarios were asked a lot in rehab and we were consistently told that sobriety is abstaining from any and all mind-altering substances. I think that there are personal choices people can make though which only they know is ok for them. Maybe it depends on who you ask.
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If it wasn’t your DOC and isn’t unmanageable then I would call it sober. But that just me.
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No. Being sober is being free from any intoxicating substances.