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  1. 2026 California Legislative Update: A Last-Minute Swerve on DUI?
    Aug 27, 2026 · original
    A Concerted Effort to Confront Dangerous Roads, but No Point 05… Yet? View the California Alcohol Legislation Tracker In terms of California’s public health policy, the 2026 legislative session was defined early on by an attention to bills that tried to curb driving under the influence (DUI). Spurred on by in-depth reporting from political news site CalMatters on the failures of the criminal justice system to stop repeat dangerous drivers , legislator introduced a dozen bills that would attempt to reform the process and create safer roads. The efforts ran the gamut of impact from relatively toothless defendant education requirements, to mandatory sentencing and sentence enhancement requirements, to novel approaches to prevent re-offense. Yet few of these answered the pressing question of how effective deterrence through legislation should look. Although effective and certain penalties ar
  2. If the USDA Won’t Provide Strong Alcohol Guidelines, Who Will?
    Jan 13, 2026 · original
    New Dietary Guidelines for Americans Fall Short In Many Respects, But Still Convey Key Truth: There Is No Safe Level of Alcohol Consumption In the wake of last week’s release of a 2026-2030 USDA Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) devoid of concrete advice around alcohol consumption, Alcohol Justice is calling for credible, science-driven groups to step up with actionable information about alcohol harm. An impactful and effective set of behavioral guidelines for alcohol consumption must, at minimum, include three elements: • A clear description of the risks • Concise actions that one can take to reduce those risks • Thorough and easy-to-find documentation of the data used to make the recommendations Unfortunately, the most recent DGA guidelines contain none of those. Instead, the agency pared previous editions’ page of information down to bullet points. The first bullet advises U.S. r
  3. What Are the Commercial Determinants of Health?
    Jan 13, 2026 · original
    Supporters of Alcohol Justice are already aware that much of the ire around alcohol harm gets directed at the industry itself. Although alcohol manufacturers and retailers span the spectrum of economic impact, from garage brewers to some of the largest corporations in the world, the economic and political clout wielded by what we term “Big Alcohol”—producers like Anheuser-Busch InBev, Heineken, Diageo, etc.—allow them an outsized ability to determine health policy. Because these corporations are answerable primarily to their own profitability, not to the health of the populace, the policies they push largely lead to more harm and death worldwide. But Big Alcohol is not alone in those incentives. Big Tobacco, the oil industry, major processed foods and sugar-sweetened beverage concerns—all of these sectors are driven by an economic incentive that, more often than not, directly conflict wi
  4. How Strong Are the Scientific Foundations of the USDA’s Alcohol Guidelines?
    Jan 12, 2026 · original
    Alcohol Justice’s review of the process documents surrounding the newly released United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) guidelines for alcohol consumption suggests that the suppression of the Alcohol Intake and Health Study may have prevented the agency from adhering to its own best practices. According to those documents, the USDA should “[c]onsider the findings of 2 other expert committees that are addressing alcoholic beverages and health outcomes” when assembling the 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA). Yet, through both internal and external pressures, at least two potential expert committees were blocked from contributing to the final advisories. For the past 35 years, the government’s standard dietary guidance has been that U.S. residents not drink, or if they do drink, have no more than 1 drink a day for women, 2 for men. Last week’s release of the DGA cut al
  5. The Personal, Political, and Prevention: NextGen Youth Advocates™ Celebrate a Year of Health and Empowerment
    Dec 23, 2025 · original
    At the heart of alcohol prevention lie two contrasting truths. First, alcohol prevention begins at the highest levels, with good policy and attentive regulators. Second, alcohol prevention begins in the home, with knowledge, compassion, and care. Alcohol Justice’s NextGen Youth Advocates project refuses to accept these two truths as separate. Continuing the organization’s ongoing dedication to providing outreach and development to the youth in San Rafael’s Canal District, NGYA activities provide kids with the knowledge they need to take control of their health, and skills they need to move legislators and decisionmakers on key issues. Over the course of the year, NGYA provided 106 days of youth programming, serving local youth between the ages of 12 and 17. Through twice-weekly workshops, group leader Susan Bryant and Chauncey Bryant helped the participants develop advocacy, substance us
  6. Youth Prevention Within the U.S. MAHA Strategy
    Oct 12, 2025 · original
    Playbook for Underage Prevention Leaves Youth Fighting Big Alcohol Alone Since the new administration took office last year, advocates against the harms of the alcohol industry have been anxiously mulling one key question: will the country’s new leaders go out on a limb to protect the public’s health, or will they abandon their constituents at the behest of Big Alcohol? Alcohol is one of the leading modifiable risk factors for death and illness worldwide, and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Sec. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has vowed he will confront industry drivers of poor health. Yet the latest strategy document released by HHS seems reluctant to grapple with the impacts of alcohol as either a product or an industry. Alcohol has long been prominent among preventable risks, but the consequences have been rising steeply in recent years. Between 2016 and 2021, estimated annu
  7. Booze Lobby and Bizarre Grandstanding Kill UN Agreement to End Noncommunicable Diseases
    Oct 2, 2025 · original
    Behind-the-Scenes Lobbying, Followed By Strange Theatrics, Benefit Alcohol, Tobacco, Processed Food, and Similar Industries This fall, the United Nations (UN) labored to prove that the world can share a vision of common health and prosperity. Instead, it showed how easily that vision can be blinded under industry pressures. For much of 2025, delegations from UN members states in the United Nations have been meeting to c ompile a list of strategies and targets to reduce the burden of heart disease, diabetes, cancers, and other conditions brought on by lifestyle choices and environmental exposures . These conditions, collectively referred to as noncommunicable diseases (NCDs)—as contrasted with communicable diseases, health problems caused by pathogens or parasites that can be passed from one person to another—are often driven by consumption of unhealthy products, including tobacco, heavil
  8. Big Stop of the 4 A.M. Bar Bill Highlights 2025 California Legislative Season
    Sep 3, 2025 · original
    CAPA Stops the Push for Closing Time Deregulation for Another Year, as DUI and Drink Spiking Bills Falter Updated December 1, 2025 The year comes to a close, for lawmakers, lobbyists, and advocates alike. After months of deliberative sturm und drang , we now know the final dispensation of the alcohol-related legislation in California. Key bills have been stopped, rewritten, pulled and/or delayed, as the legislative slate is finalized then wiped clean for 2026. Of the bills that moved forward, some offered hope for protective change while others frustratingly repeated past mistakes. Alcohol Justice, the California Alcohol Policy Alliance, and our many colleagues and allies pour have poured blood and ink into the progress that has made so far this year. Now we take a moment to evaluate, celebrate, and plan for the future. Even as Alcohol Justice publishes this, legislators are planning the
  9. New Publication from Alcohol Justice Brings Alcohol Warning Labels Into the 21st Century
    Sep 2, 2025 · original
    Emerging Link Between Alcohol and Cancer Demands Bold New Approaches We have all seen the alcohol warning labels on the backs of beer and liquor bottles . In cramped letters, often orthogonal to the rest of the text, they cite the U.S. Surgeon General in warning pregnant women not to drink, and everybody else to avoid driving a car or operating heavy machinery. For many of us, these tiny notices have been present for our entire lives, having been mandated by an act of Congress in 1988. But in the intervening years, the risks of alcohol consumption have become more clear—aside from birth defects and dangerous driving, alcohol consumption has been linked to a number of health problems, most notably cancer. Over the past decade, the research on the carcinogenic effects of drinking has become so compelling and urgent that the Surgeon General’s office released a national advisory on those dan
  10. Unexpected Item in the Boozing Area: Industry’s Push to Sell Alcohol via Self-Checkout
    Aug 27, 2025 · original
    Hollowing Out Labor Protections to Make Self-Checkout an Alcoholic Trojan Horse As California’s 2025 legislative session entered its final stretch, the corporate thirst for cutting personnel costs collided with Big Alcohol’s thirst to move more product. The effort hinges on SB 442 , a bill that seeks to ensure grocery and big box store employees still have jobs even as the use of automated checkout kiosks expands. The proposed policy would protect jobs even as it stands in the way of cutting employee costs. But as the bill moved through the deliberative process, the alcohol industry lobbyists were busy using it as a back door to legalize alcohol sales by self-checkout. SB 442 would place some obligations for staffing levels on grocery and “big box” stores, in an effort to prevent corporations from cutting staff to the bone (which results in quite literally putting the labor obligation on

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