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The cover of the October 2022 eNews featuring the table of contents of the issue and a photo of a red neon rose

February 2024

On Super Bowl Sunday, Youth For Justice Talks Back

Alcohol Justice's Best and Worst of 2023

Can Alcohol Taxes Save Public Colleges?

"Damp January" Puts the Freeze on the Sober Curious

Recent Issues

Oct 2022

The 2022 Legislative Roundup; Big Alcohol Mines Mexico for Water; The Liquor Bottle Label Battle; Budweiser's World Cup Pitch Paves Over Workers' Graves

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Nov 2021

Mexicali Resiste Takes the Fight to Corona's Door; Is a "DUI-Proof" Car For Real?; Little Town vs. Big Box: Santa Barbara Residents Fight for Control over Alcohol Sales

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Nov 2020

Fight for 0.05% BAC in CA; NYC Bans Outdoor Alcohol Ads; Pharma Must Pay the Bill for Opioids; AB InBev Are Wolves in Synthetic Fleece

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May 2019

Fight for 0.05% BAC in CA; NYC Bans Outdoor Alcohol Ads; Pharma Must Pay the Bill for Opioids; AB InBev Are Wolves in Synthetic Fleece

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Feb 2019

Newsom's Troublesome Wine Wealth; 2019 Alcohol Legislation; Booziest Super Bowl Ever; Return of the 4 A.M. Bar Bill

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Nov 2018

4 A.M. Bar Bill Vetoed; CAPA Pefect in 2018; A Holiday Gift of Alcohol is No Gift At All; Brewpub Sting Finds Majority in Violation of License

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Sept 2018

Late-Night Bar Bill Passes Legislature, Veto Needed; Emodka, the Funny Vodka for Kids; Heineken's Fake-Craft Pot Beer Boondoggle

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May 2018

Unlimited Booze in Art Galleries Doesn't Work for California; After Cancer Scare, Reporter Digs Deep Into Myth of Healthy Alcohol; Corrupt Federal Alcohol Study Suspended by NIH

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March 2018

SuperBowl Ads Reach New Lows; National Academy of Sciences Sets Sights on DUI-Free America; Boston Transit Caves, Reinstates Booze Ads; BU Prof Shines Light on Shady Research Money

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January 2018

SuperBowl Ads Reach New Lows; National Academy of Sciences Sets Sights on DUI-Free America; Boston Transit Caves, Reinstates Booze Ads; BU Prof Shines Light on Shady Research Money

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December 2017

Scandal-Plagued Sac Can't Leave Last Call Times Alone; Could Wyoming Embrace Charge for Harm?; Ohio Sen. Dumps Big Alcohol Giveaway Into Tax Bill

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August 2017: Welcome to the Kennel

ALL DOGHOUSE EDITION: Snapchat Brings Rum to Kids; Alcohol Industry Consolidation; Last Call Bill Backers Play Dirty; Colleges Getting Addicted to Beer Money

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June 2017

4 A.M. Bar Bill Sneaks Through Senate; Feds Want to Give $321 Million to Big Booze; Alcosynth Masks Today's Problems Behind High-Tech Veneer

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May 2017

Whiteclay Liquor License Fight Heads to the Courts;  Federal "Craft" Beverage Bill Caters to Big Alcohol; CT's Alcohol Vending Machines: Straight to the Mouths of Babes

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March 31, 2017

4 A.M. Bar Bill Backers Trying to Pass Bill on the Backs of the Dead; Utah Becomes First State to Embrace 0.05 BAC Limits; Congress Trying to Gut Effective Public Health Tax Break

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March 31, 2017

4 A.M. Bar Bill Backers Trying to Pass Bill on the Backs of the Dead; Utah Becomes First State to Embrace 0.05 BAC Limits; Congress Trying to Gut Effective Public Health Tax Break

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February 28, 2017

Fight Back Against 4 A.M. Bar Bill; Street Ministry Plans to Buy Out, Shut Down Whiteclay Liquor Stores; Is 0.05 BAC the New Limit for DUI? 

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January 27, 2017

Surgeon General's Report; Minimum-Unit Pricing in Scotland; Hardees/Carl's Jr. Markets Beer to Youth

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January 27, 2017

Surgeon General's Report; Minimum-Unit Pricing in Scotland; Hardees/Carl's Jr. Markets Beer to Youth

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December 21, 2016

Surgeon General's Report; Minimum-Unit Pricing in Scotland; Hardees/Carl's Jr. Markets Beer to Youth

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November 23, 2016

What Alcohol Teaches Us About Marijuana Regulation, TPP is Dead, National Parks Sell Out to Big Alcohol 

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October 31, 2016

Whiteclay Activists Rally Behind NB Senator's Life-Saving Proposal; CA Passes Palcohol Ban; AB Inbev and SABMiller Merger Fallout 

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September 29, 2016

Governor Brown Sends Mixed Messages on Youth Alcohol Prevention; Whiteclay Declared a "Public Health Disaster"; MI Rep Fights for Charge for Harm

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August 24, 2016

Youth Protestors Fight AB 1322; New Mexico to Vote on Alcohol Tax; New TPP Deadline Looms in Congress

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July 15, 2016

Legislature Moves to Allow Unlicensed, Unregulated, Free Booze at 42,000+ Beauty Parlors and Barber Shops; Why you should be worried about the impending big beer merger!; How Other's Alcohol Use Became Your Business: The Toxin-Omics

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June 13, 2016 

AB-InBev Continues Doghouse Streak; California Powdered Alcohol Bills Update; California Powdered Alcohol Bills Update; Alcohol Kills Cells In Your Body. Is The Harm Reversible?

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May 5, 2016 

Supermajority of States Bans Powdered Alcohol; Research Forum Claiming that Moderate Drinking Improves Health is Deliberately Hiding Its Conflicts of Interest with Big Alcohol; The Noose Begins to Tighten on US Alcohol Ads. Links to Youth Consumption, Harm and Preventable Death Unquestionable

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April 7, 2016 

California Assembly Committee Delivers 2nd Punch to Powdered Alcohol, Passes AB 1554 to Ban the Product in the State; Malaysia Increases Alcohol Tax by 10%; Big Alcohol Exposed!

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February 29, 2016 

.05 BAC Limit on NTSB Most Wanted List; Powdered Alcohol Update; Farewell from Sarah Mart, Director of Research 

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January 20, 2015

Powdered Alcohol Bans Introduced in CA; CA Alcohol Policy Alliance Launches; New UK Guidelines

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December 23, 2015

Alcopops: Sweet, cheap, flavored threats to youth ;CalBoozeBuster App Takes First Prize; Alcohol Taxes Save Lives & Money

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November 12, 2015

Major Findings released re: costs of alcohol harm, advertising impact; Nebraska ABC seeks bill for alcohol impact areas including Whiteclay; In the Doghouse: Flavored? Glow-in-the-dark? A-B Inbev.

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October 26, 2015

Global Alcohol Policy Conference 2015; 17 State AGs to Phusion: Reduce Alcohol Content; MBTA reconsiders alcohol ad ban

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September 30, 2015

Red Flags on pinkwashed drinks: New Article & AJ brief; New California Alcohol Tax Bill; Bigger Big Beer

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September 9, 2015

Many American's reject "health benefits of alcohol" myth; Marin Count's alcohol environment ; Hard soda, the new alcopop

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August 19, 2015

New Powdered Alcohol Resource; "Beer Serves America" release ignores harm and costs; Olivia Newton John's new wine line for breast cancer

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July 29, 2015

Marin County Report; AB 1322 THANK YOU!; Effective alcohol polices: New OECD report

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July 17, 2015

Petition For Alcohol Ad-Free Transit In NYC; Powdered Alcohol Commentary In JAMA; PA Governor Tom Wolf Vetoes Privatization

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May 20, 2015

Alcohol & Cancer Symposium 2015; Extending Bar Hours=Increased Harm, Burden on Communities

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April 29, 2015

Big Alcohol Seeks to Quash Effective Policy; Comments on 2015 Dietary Guidelines Due May 8

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April 8, 2015

New Study Finds Evidence of Alcopops Harm; Deadline Extended for Dietary Guidelines Comments

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March 18, 2015

Victory for 3-Tier System in KY; Diageo/Diddy/Ciroc Target Youth on Instagram

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February 25, 2015

Competing Tax Break Bills for Beer Producers; A-B InBev's New Youth-Friendly Alcopop

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February 4, 2015

Victory in Los Angeles; Boston Mayor Marty Walsh in the Doghouse

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January 14, 2015

Calls to End Alcohol Sport Sponsorships Continue; Koch Bros' Group Funding PA Privatization Push

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December 10, 2014

FDA Requires Alcohol Calorie Info on Menus; Heineken Big 2014 Alcohol Promoter to Youth

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November 5, 2014

SABMiller/UK Civil Service Conflict of Interest Derailed; Industry Front Groups Merge

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October 15, 2014

Study Confirms Breast Cancer & Moderate Drinking Link; Big Beer Merger Concerns

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September 24, 2014

USDA Funding Wineries; New Alcohol Justice Publications

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September 3, 2014

A-B InBev Profits from World Cup Sales Surge; Big Alcohol Trade Groups on the Attack

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August 7, 2014

Our New Website, Pernod Drinking App in the Doghouse

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May 21, 2014

NH Advocates Help Kill Bill; DISCUS Sponsors Drunken Whiskey Tour for Journalists

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April 30, 2014

Pernod Ricard Wants You to Think Absolut = Microdistilled; Heineken Targets Teens with Coachella/Snapchat Campaign

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April 9, 2014

REEL Recovery Film Festival Schedule and Tickets; Marketing Restrictions for Four Loko

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March 20, 2014

Survey: Alcopops Widely Available in CA Stores; Proposed Mass. Bill to Ban Alcohol Ads

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February 26, 2014

Alcohol - Cancer Risk A Growing Concern; Tis the Season for Deregulation Legislation

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