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Success Stories
:: Nordstrom Agrees to Stop Selling Sandals After Complaint
About Secret Flask
Officials at retail giant Nordstrom have agreed to stop selling
sandals with a built-in flask after receiving complaints from the
Oregon Partnership, a community-based prevention and
treatment organization.
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:: Oregon Partnership Claims Victory as Anheuser-Busch
Drops Spykes!
“From the beginning, we thought this product was aimed at
underage drinkers and thanks to others who thought the same
thing, it’s now gone” – Pam Erickson, Oregon Partnership
Good riddance to Spykes, the two-ounce, multi-colored bottles
of flavored-malt beverage that Anheuser-Busch began distributing
five months ago and immediately became a lighting rod for
Oregon Partnership and other groups around the country trying
to stem the tide of underage drinking.
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:: Kohl’s Agrees To Stop Selling Binge Drinking Games! 
It didn’t take long for Kohl’s Department Stores to respond
to complaints by Oregon Partnership about the sale and
promotion of drinking games.
“Be assured that the remaining games are being removed
from all Kohl’s stores and online,” said Kohl’s
spokeswoman Julie Landro in a call and e-mail to
Oregon Partnership President/CEO Judy Cushing.
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:: Macy's Pulls T-Shirts Nationwide! 
Within the past two weeks, local, regional and national
news media responded to our concerns about Macy's
selling beer-themed T-shirts in their back-to-school
displays for kids. We were tipped by Lynn Chiotti, a local
prevention activist from Columbia County, who spotted
one of the T-shirts in a back-to-school advertisement in
The Oregonian, and who then alerted us to the problem.
We then sent a request to the CEO of Federated
Department Stores -owner of Macy's- to remove the
T-shirts, and we notified the news media, which took
up the story. Lynn Chiotti emailed Macy’s, herself, and
raised her concerns as a customer.
Amazingly, Macy's responded, and they began to remove
the T-shirts in Portland-area stores within 24 hours of our
alert to the news media. We just heard from Lynn Chiotti that there will be a nationwide effort to remove the T-shirts from all of Macy’s stores, all of Federated Department stores, and also from the Macy’s website which had displayed the T-shirts.
Thank you to all of you who responded to our original Action Alert, and to Lynn Chiotti for not only spotting the T-shirts and contacting us, but also for following through with Macy’s on her own.
:: Preventing Underage Drinking in Sherwood, Oregon
One year ago, the National Academy of Science (NAS) Institute of Medicine published "Reducing Underage Drinking: a Collective Responsibility." The report broke new ground by emphasizing community level primary prevention rather than individually oriented approaches-and gave a strong endorsement to what the Marin Institute terms "environmental prevention."
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:: Victory! Bad Beer Ads Come Down 
Action by Marin Institute and others helped
convince Anheuser-Busch to take down all
of its Bud Light billboards across the
country that showed a young man riding a
jet ski against the backdrop of a giant
bottle of Bud Light. This followed a complaint
we sent to the Federal Trade Commission
asserting that the billboard violated the Beer
Institute code prohibiting ads that "associate
or portray beer drinking before or during
activities which require a high degree of
alertness of coordination."
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