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Addiction Medicine
AB 1019: It's Time for Big Alcohol to Pay Up
May 8th, 2009
Assembly Bill 1019 -- a proposal to impose a fee on the beer, wine, and liquor industries to mitigate the billions in costs to Californians for alcohol-related problems -- advances to its first hearing this legislative session on Tuesday before the California State Assembly Health Committee. Revenue from the fee would be used to establish a program to be administered by state Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs that would help mitigate the $38.4 billion cost of harm that alcohol creates in accidents, deaths, illnesses, injuries, and crime - such as domestic violence. "The industry must start paying its fair share for the problems their products...
Source: Health Business Week (2009-05-08)
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