Okay then, I'll accept a technicality.
Not that it really matters how we define it.
So if I drink at 5 o'clock on Monday afternoon, and I have another drink at 6, does that mean I am "sober" between 5 and 6? Or do we start counting sobriety after the blood alcohol count drops to 0.079?
Technicalities aside, I would submit that sobriety is INTENTIONAL abstinence from drinking over time, with the INTENTION of not resuming it. My point was that just because someone isn't drinking for any period of time, if their intention is to resume drinking, then they are not sober.
I only take issue with the term because "sobriety" is a desirable state for the nondrinker to achieve, and some never get there.
Look. Bickering over semantics does nothing to help the OP. If that is what this thread is going to degenerate to, you can count me out.
FT