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Massachusetts Enacts Full Parity for Addiction Treatment
Capping years of effort by addiction policy advocates and their allies at the statehouse, Massachusetts has enacted legislation requiring health insurers to provide unlimited coverage for medically necessary treatment of substance use disorders. 08/10/2008
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
FTC Supports Self-Regulation of Alcohol Industry Ads
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says that 92 percent of alcohol advertising meets the industry's self-imposed threshold on limiting underage exposure to beer, wine and liquor ads and urged that the industry expand self-regulation standards to event sponsorships as well as TV and Internet ads. 07/11/2008
California Will Tax, Regulate Alcopops as Liquor
The decision by the California Board of Equalization to regulate alcopop drinks as distilled spirits rather than beer has received final approval by the state Office of Administrative Law, meaning higher state taxes on drinks like Bacardi Breezers, Mike's Hard Lemonade, and Smirnoff Ice. 06/16/2008
Obama and McCain: Where They Stand on Addiction Issues
Up to this point, we've heard far more about the candidates' personal histories involving alcohol, tobacco and other drugs than how either John McCain or Barack Obama would approach treatment and prevention from a policy perspective. 06/06/2008
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Boston University School of Public Health 
