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Mark Gottlieb in the Press
Audit of Mass. gambling regulator finds sports betting ads were sent to youths and people affected by addiction
“The finding that the Commission failed to take a proactive role monitoring sports gambling advertising in the critical first months of Massachusetts sports betting is a cause for deep concern,” said Mark Gottlieb, executive director of the Public Health Advocacy Institute at Northeastern University. “Potentially dangerous consumer products demand a robust regulatory oversight that was absent […]
Boston Magazine
The Great Massachusetts Nicotine Prohibition
The long list of speakers included Mark Gottlieb, executive director of Northeastern University School of Law’s Public Health Advocacy Institute, which has worked extensively on tobacco policy and clinical addiction, as well as Harvard doctors and professors, select board members and Reading residents.
New England Public Radio
“When the fun stops, stop.” Addiction experts consider the rise of gambling in the U.K. a test case
“It may or may not be doing what they set out to do, but I think the concept struck us as a very solid one,” said Mark Gottlieb, the executive director of the Public Health Advocacy Institute at Northeastern University in Boston.
Christian Science Monitor
Massachusetts towns ban nicotine for a generation. Public health win or overreach?
“We’re at a level of readiness that is really the envy of most other states,” says Mark Gottlieb, a lawyer who runs Northeastern University’s Public Health Advocacy Institute. “This is a really good place to see where this policy can go.”
Lexington leaders hear about business, public health impacts of generational nicotine sale ban
Mark Gottlieb executive director of the Public Health Advocacy Institute at Northeastern University School of Law, said at the meeting that it’s common for towns and cities to go first with setting new public health policies that then become adopted statewide and nationally.
CBS
With popularity of online sports betting, gambling counselors see more young men battling addiction
“Absolutely. That is their target population. That is where they’re going to grow their market,” said Mark Gottlieb, Public Health Advocacy Group executive director.
CBS
Technology has fueled a sports betting boom and a spike in problem gambling, addiction therapist warns
Harry Levant doesn’t make that analogy casually. Recently, he paired up with Dick Daynard, a law professor at Northeastern University and architect of the first major lawsuits against the big tobacco companies.
NBC Boston
Group sues DraftKings over $1,000 sign-up bonus and its fine print
The $1,000 bonus at the heart of the lawsuit, filed in Middlesex Superior Court Friday by the Public Health Advocacy Institute at Northeastern University, had fine print that revealed it would only be paid out if customers made an initial deposit of $5,000 and gambled $25,000 within 90 days on bets with odds of -300 […]
Brookline banned anyone born this century from buying tobacco in town. The rule is ‘clever,’ but is it legal?
“I would think [tobacco companies] may consider it a bit of a long shot, but a potentially mortal threat to their industry,” said Mark Gottlieb, executive director of the Public Health Advocacy Institute at Northeastern University’s School of Law, which is representing Brookline in the lawsuit.
Should we ban the purchase of cigarettes for life? A US town is trying
Mark Gottlieb, a public health lawyer at Northeastern University, describes how federal drug policy seems almost random, carved into stone by whoever’s in power, oddities of their own times.
