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Long Fight to Regulate Alcopops Faces Key Hearing in Nebraska
A Nebraska youth alcohol-prevention group has been grappling with state lawmakers, regulators and the alcohol industry for years to get alcopops classified as liquor, not beer, and the rollercoaster process will make a key stop on July 31 as the Nebraska Liquor Control Commission will hold a hearing on the classification issue. 07/18/2008
Canadian Plan to Reduce Costs of Alcohol Abuse
Canada's Center for Addiction and Mental Health has released a six-point plan to reduce the fiscal impact of alcohol abuse, which the report says costs every Canadian $463 annually. 06/13/2008
Advocates Win Delay on Md. Alcopops Bill
After meeting with MADD officials and parents, Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley backed off plans to sign a bill that would have allowed so-called alcopop drinks to continue to be taxed at the same rate as beer. 04/25/2008
CSPI Applauds Maine's Taxes on Soda, Beer & Wine
The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) wants governors, state legislators, and members of Congress interested in simultaneously bridging budget gaps and improving public health to look to Maine. 04/24/2008
Advocates Urge Maryland Governor to Veto Alcopops Bill
Public health advocates are urging Maryland's governor to veto a bill passed last week that will officially designate alcopops as beer, allowing drinks like Jack Daniel's Black Jack Cola to remain more widely distributed -- and taxed less -- than distilled spirits. 04/15/2008
Updated State Alcohol Policy Information
The Alcohol Policy Information System, a project by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, has updated its state-by-state alcohol policy data. 04/10/2008
Liquor Prices Could Be Pegged to Alcohol Content
The University of Victoria's Centre for Addictions Research has proposed that the Canadian province of British Columbia set prices for beer, wine and liquor based on each product's alcohol content. 01/24/2008
Alcohol Tax Plan Dies in S.D. Senate
Faced with strong opposition from the liquor industry, a measure that would have raised the alcohol tax in South Dakota was killed in a Senate committee. 01/17/2008
Raise Alcohol Prices to Prevent Abuse, U.K. Doctors Say
The president of Great Britain's Royal College of Physicians said that alcohol education efforts have failed and that the only way to prevent excessive drinking is to raise alcohol prices, ban alcohol advertising, and reduce availability. 12/21/2007
Youths Helped Drive Calif. Alcopops Decision
The fight to determine whether so-called 'alcopops' should be classified as beer or liquor in California sometimes smacked of regulatory arcana, but the issue nonetheless spiked the passions of youth leaders in the state. 10/12/2007
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