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Success Stories
:: Oregon Pharmacy Board Bans K2, Spice and other “Synthetic Marijuana” products
October 15, 2010
In a major win for all of us, The Oregon Board of Pharmacy has voted to ban sale and possession of dangerous synthetic cannabis known on the market as “spice,” or “K2”.
Rarely have we had a chance to get ahead of an emerging drug problem and this is a slam dunk. We had been trying to get traction with the legislature to put a ban on these dangerous drugs ahead of their next meeting in February, but this action takes care of the issue once and for all.
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:: 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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