We curate a digest of the latest news in our field for advocates, policymakers, community coalitions and all who work toward shaping policies and practices to effectively prevent substance use and treat addiction.
The Michigan Liquor Control Commission (LCC) has banned the sale of alcoholic energy drinks, becoming the second state in the nation to do so.
Good deeds and good work weren’t enough to keep the Historic Triangle Substance Abuse Coalition’s (HTSAC) doors open. The Virginia-based coalition ran out of grant funds last week and had to shut down.
Election night is over, and most of the results are in: it’s a mixed bag for the alcohol and other drug initiatives on state ballots. California’s efforts to legalize marijuana -- a.k.a. Proposition 19 -- fell short with 56 percent of voters rejecting the measure. Initiatives related to medical marijuana in South Dakota and Oregon also failed, while Arizona narrowly approved a medical-marijuana measure.
Massachusetts voted to repealed a 6.25 percent alcohol tax, and Washington chose to block at least one measure seeking to privatize liquor distribution. Meanwhile, California approved Prop. 26, possibly negating efforts to require the alcohol industry, among others, to pay for the harm caused by their products.
Turns out that researchers looking to help tobacco farmers have found a new use for tobacco and nicotine -- as a pesticide.
The S.F. Giants have won the World Series, but the Texas Rangers have won our respect.
Tobacco companies face about 8,000 lawsuits in Florida after a 2006 decision by the Fla. Supreme Court opened the floodgates. But, even though plaintiffs have won 19 of the last 26 cases, tobacco companies have won the most recent five.
What the heck is ’drunkorexia?’ That’s when you cut down on food calories and replace them with alcohol, a practice that some college students are engaging in.
As election day looms across the country and in California, where voters will decide on Proposition 19 -- a measure that would legalize sale and possession of marijuana in the state (at least for those inclined to ignore federal law) -- one of the questions being debated is whether or not pot is addictive.