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Coalition Forms to Keep N.J. Drinking Age at 21
In response to a national campaign to reopen debate on lowering the legal drinking age from 21 to 18, a group of New Jersey agencies and organizations has formed the NJ21 Coalition. 09/05/2008
Public-Health Style Websites Serve as Loophole for Pharma Ads
Pharmaceutical companies have found a way around federal regulations on advertising drugs like the antismoking remedy Chantix by creating ads that refer readers and viewers to websites like mytimetoquit.com rather than touting the drug directly by name. 09/05/2008
UMass Claims Success with Social-Norms Campaign
The University of Massachusetts at Amherst says that binge drinking and overall heavy drinking have declined two years after the school launched a social-norms campaign to combat its "Zoo Mass" reputation as a party campus. 09/05/2008
Illicit Drug Use Holds Steady, Report Says
The annual National Survey on Drug Use and Health found little change in past-month use of illicit drugs in 2007, although use of cocaine and methamphetamine did decline. 09/04/2008
Scotland Could Raise Drinking Age to 21
An epidemic of youth drinking and alcohol-related deaths has the Scottish legislature mulling a plan to raise the legal drinking age from 18 to 21. 09/04/2008
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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. MORE FEATURES >
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Boston University School of Public Health 
