CSPI Lays Off Most Anti-Alcohol Advocacy Staff

Addiction advocacy web site Join Together is reporting that the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) announced earlier this month that it has cut all of its Alcohol Policies Project staff except longtime director George Hacker, effectively ending the only full-time advocacy effort on alcohol policy issues on Capitol Hill.

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“We’ve all depended on CSPI for a long time,” said Michael Scippa, advocacy director of the Marin Institute. “This is kind of a wakeup call to advocates of all kinds that we may need to include more trips to Washington, D.C., in our travel plans.”

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