Newswire (Canada)
- Government of Canada invests in Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Prevention
in Atlantic Provinces
Today, Member of Parliament, Scott Simms, on behalf of the Honourable Patty
Hajdu, Minister of Health, announced funding for Toward Prevention, which will
increase awareness of FASD, prevent alcohol use in pregnancy, and improve the
health and social outcomes for those affected by FASD.
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The Ripon Advance
(USA) - Murkowski sponsors bipartisan Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders bill
Federal support would be provided to help individuals and families affected
by Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) under a bipartisan, bicameral bill
introduced by U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK).
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Florida News
Times (USA) - Fetal alcohol exposure data highlights the need for public
health intervention
Alcohol intake during pregnancy can harm developing embryos and foets, but
a new study led by the School of Public Health found that a significant number
of pregnancies leading to childbirth are still associated with alcohol
exposure. I did.
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DATAC (Canada) - Rise
in young adult drinking concerns New Brunswick’s fetal alcohol centre
According to new research from the University of New Brunswick (UNB),
one-third of young adults in New Brunswick have been drinking more alcohol over
the course of the pandemic.
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Yale News - Fetal
alcohol exposure data underscore need for public health interventions
While alcohol consumption during pregnancy may result in harm to developing
embryos and fetuses, a new study led by the Yale School of Public health finds
that a significant number of pregnancies that result in live birth still
involve alcohol exposure.
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Oldham Chronicle
(UK) - New educational film shows the impacts of drinking alcohol during
pregnancy
A new film that will raise awareness in young people of the potential damage
caused by drinking alcohol when pregnant will premiere online on Thursday (June
24) at 2pm.
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Susan D Rich - #FASDReSPectAct:
A New Bill to Fund Prenatal Alcohol Exposure Research, Services &
Prevention
Today I had the opportunity to speak with a dear friend and close colleague
who has been a #NationalLeader and Champion in the #FASDcommunity - Tom
Donaldson of the National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (NOFAS).
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FASD Hope - 64
- Changes for Generations - Part 2 - A Conversation with Dr. Susan Rich
June is Book Month on FASD Hope, to shine a light on a variety of authors
in the FASD Community. Episodes 63 and 64 highlight Dr. Susan Rich. Dr. Susan
Rich is a Child / Adolescent Psychiatrist and a champion in the field of FASD
Clinical work and research.
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VIDEOS and
MATERIALS
NOFAS – Run FASD
Run FASD is Strength, Tenacity, Empowerment, Hope, and Vision. A virtual 5k
event that can happen at your own pace wherever you are. From September
9th-15th, 2021, Run FASD to bring awareness to Fetal Alcohol Spectrum
Disorders.
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OhioMHAS - How
to Navigate School when you have a child with FASD: Advocacy, Special Education
Issues
Webinar recording from May 14, 2021
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OhioMHAS - Understanding,
reducing stigma for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: Culturally Competent
Practices
Understanding and reducing stigma for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders FASD
: Culturally Competent Practices in Caring for Individuals with FASD. Webinar
recording from June 4, 2021
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DiG FASD - DiG
FASD Study Videos
Videos for Kids • Videos for Adults • NOFAS Webinar
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Health Nexus
Santé - FASD Virtual Caregiver Retreat Session 2: Mindfulness with Marvin
the Marmot
This recording is part of a 4-session retreat for caregivers of individuals
with complex mental health issues including FASD. Children can come and learn
valuable mindfulness skills with Marvin the Mindful Marmot who along with his
mindful mates, teach kids how to regulate their emotions and calm down.
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Health Nexus
Santé - FASD Virtual Caregiver Retreat Session 1: Nutrition and Mental
Health
This recording is part of a 4-session retreat for caregivers of individuals
with complex mental health issues including FASD.
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Health Nexus
Santé - FASD Virtual Caregiver Retreat Session 3: Mindfulness, Acceptance
and Gentle Yoga
This recording is part of a 4-session retreat for caregivers of individuals
with complex mental health issues including FASD.
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Health Nexus
Santé - FASD Virtual Caregiver Retreat Session 4: Family Wellness – Keeping
Everyone Safe
This recording is part of a 4-session retreat for caregivers of individuals
with complex mental health issues including FASD.
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National Juvenile
Defender Center - FASD & Youth: What Defenders Need to Know
On March 24, 2021, NJDC and the Mid-Atlantic Juvenile Defender Center
hosted a webinar titled FASD & Youth: What Defenders Need to Know.
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AlcoholFreePregnancy
- NOFAS Policy & Training Center: June 2021 Virtual Forum
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Russell Family
Fetal Alcohol Disorders Association - Chapter 9 alcohol and Pregnancy: My
Responsible Disturbance
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StayWell - Fetal
Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: A Mother's Story
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FASD Hub - Meet
David Tucker: Making FASD History in the Pilbara
David Tucker is a researcher and PhD candidate who has been working on the
Make FASD History in the Pilbara project. We asked David to share some of the
project's findings around the role of men in supporting their partners to not
drink alcohol during pregnancy.
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Action Together -
Rochdale Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Network Launches Peer Support
E-book
Rochdale Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) Network has launched the
FASD Parent and Carer Experiences E-book to support people caring for children
with FASD, raise awareness and shared lived experiences to drive positive
change.
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RESEARCH
Rutgers - Implementation of a screening, brief intervention, and referral to
treatment (SBIRT) program for alcohol use during pregnancy
Implementation of SBIRT resulted in an increased number of women identified
as at-risk for an alcohol-exposed pregnancy. Among 35 women who were screened
for alcohol use, nine (26%) screened at-risk.
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Australian
Indigenous HealthInfoNet - Summary of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)
among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) is a condition caused by alcohol
exposure before birth. During pregnancy, alcohol freely crosses the placenta
[1]. The baby cannot process the alcohol and this may result in damage to the
baby’s brain and body.
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Investigative
Ophthalmology & Visual Science - Visual dysfunction in a zebrafish FASD
model is associated with retinal proteostasis impairment
Together, these results show that binge-like EtOH exposure in immature
zebrafish larvae produces visual dysfunction, including effects on cone PR
neurons. Part of the damaging effects of EtOH on retinal neurons may involve
disruption of proteostasis.
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Applied
Neuropsychology: Child - Behavior regulation skills are associated with
adaptive functioning in children and adolescents with prenatal alcohol exposure
These results highlight the possibility that targeting particular EF
domains among individuals with PAE may benefit behavior regulation, which may
also extend to adaptive skills.
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International
Journal of Language and Communication Disorders - Oral and written
communication skills of adolescents with prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE)
compared with those with no/low PAE: A systematic review
Our results emphasize that for adolescents with PAE, communication skills
in both oral and written modalities should be comprehensively understood in
assessment and when planning interventions.
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Revista
Brasileira de Enfermagem - Individual and contextual variables associated
with smoking and alcohol consumption during pregnancy
individual characteristics and the living environment are associated with
smoking, secondhand smoke and alcohol consumption during pregnancy.
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American Journal
of Obstetrics and Gynecology - Prenatal alcohol consumption and placental
outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis of clinical studies
PAE increases the likelihood of placental abruption, and is associated with
decreased placental weight, altered placental vasculature, DNA methylation and
molecular pathways.
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Qualitative
Health Research - Alcohol Consumption During Pregnancy in Brazil: Elements
of an Interpretive Approach
With this research, we aimed to raise elements to enhance the understanding
of alcohol consumption among pregnant women in Brazil. Fourteen women
identified as alcohol consumers during pregnancy were interviewed.
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Medical Decision
Making - Reducing the Prevalence of Alcohol-Exposed Pregnancies in the
United States: A Simulation Modeling Study
Promoting alcohol abstinence among women who are aware of their pregnancy
or seeking pregnancy offers limited potential to reduce the prevalence of AEPs.
Programs to avert unintended pregnancies are essential to achieve more
substantial reductions in AEPs in the United States.
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Carolina Digital
Repository - Maternal Weight and Diet as Protective Factors Against the
Adverse Effects of Prenatal Alcohol Exposure
This research attempted to better understand maternal weight and dietary
intake as factors which may mitigate some of the adverse effects of prenatal
alcohol exposure in the early infancy period.
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Springer - The
Placenta as a Target for Alcohol During Pregnancy: The Close Relation with IGFs
Signaling Pathway
This review tries to examine the current knowledge and gaps in our existing
understanding of the ethanol effects in insulin/IGFs signaling pathway, which
can explain the mechanism to elucidate the adverse actions of ethanol in the
maternal–fetal interface of mammals.
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American Journal
of Physiology - Prenatal ethanol exposure impairs the conduction delay at
the atrioventricular junction in the looping heart
Our findings reveal regional differences in the AVJ myocardium even at this
early stage in heart development. These findings reveal the early steps leading
to the heterogeneity and complexity of conduction at the mature AVJ, a site
where arrhythmias can be initiated.
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Drug and Alcohol
Dependence - Cortical gyrification in children with attention
deficit-hyperactivity disorder and prenatal alcohol exposure
Children with ADHD + PAE uniquely demonstrate lower mid-dorsolateral LGI,
with widespread lower LGI related to more severe facial dysmorphia and
neurobehavioral impairments.
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Sex- and
Gender-Based Analysis in Public Health - Women, Alcohol and the Public
Health Response: Moving Forward from Avoidance, Inattention and Inaction to
Gender-Based Design
This chapter discusses the need for sex-, gender- and diversity-based
analysis to be brought to bear on the topic of women and alcohol, the uptake to
date by public health and much-needed directions forward.
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Syracuse
University - Pregnant Women with Substance Use Disorders Deserve Plans of
Safe Care
Substance use among women who are pregnant is a growing U.S public health
issue. Approximately 340,000 infants are affected by prenatal exposure to
illicit drugs annually, leading to an increase in Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome
(NAS), and Child Protective Services involvement.
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Utah State
University - Pregnancy and Substance Use
The use of alcohol and other harmful substances, such as cocaine, opioids,
and marijuana during pregnancy has increased over the last decades (Sebastiani
et al., 2018).
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Drug and Alcohol
Dependence - Central white matter integrity alterations in 2-3-year-old
children following prenatal alcohol exposure
Widespread altered white matter microstructural integrity at 2–3 years of
age is consistent with findings in neonates in the same and other cohorts,
indicating persistence of effects of PAE through early life.
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Child
Neuropsychology - Halstead Category Test sensitivity to neurocognitive deficits
in prenatal alcohol exposed and cognitively impaired children
The findings support the use of the HCT as a sensitive measure of executive
functions in both PAE and non-PAE cognitively impaired children with no
evidence of gender and ethnic bias.
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University of
Melbourne - Women’s Perspectives on the Impact of Trauma on Pregnancy,
Substance Use and Parenting
Findings suggest that PTSD diagnostic criteria will not adequately capture
the impact that adverse events have had on a pregnant substance using
population.
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Preventive Medicine
Reports - Maternal smoking trajectory during pregnancy predicts offspring’s
smoking and substance use – The Northern Finland birth cohort 1966 study
The aim was to characterize the association of maternal smoking trajectory
during pregnancy with offspring’s smoking, alcohol and substance use behavior.
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Addictive
Behaviors - Maternal personality and alcohol use during pregnancy in Japan:
The Tohoku Medical Megabank Project Birth and Three-Generation Cohort Study
Different personality scales are associated with alcohol use at different
points during pregnancy.
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IN OTHER
LANGUAGES
Nordbayern (Germany) - Junge Erwachsene mit FASD wollen sich untereinander
austauschen
Mütterlicher Alkoholkonsum während der Schwangerschaft verursacht häufig
vorgeburtliche Schädigungen bei Kindern. Zusammengefasst werden diese unter dem
Begriff "Fetale Alkohol Spektrum Störung" (FASD).
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Maminka.cz (Czech
Republic) - Alkohol v těhotenství: Ublíží sklenička vína miminku, nebo ne?
Pití alkoholu v těhotenství není prospěšné, na tom se samozřejmě shodnou
všichni lékaři. Následky mohou být fatální, varují. Je to tak ale i v případě,
že si dáte k obědu malé pivo nebo občas večer s partnerem dvojku vína? Co
alkohol v těle těhotné ženy způsobuje a jak ohrožuje miminko?
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PebMed (Brazil) -
A presença paterna na prevenção do uso de bebidas alcoólicas e depressão na
gestação
Hoje, mesmo com acesso facilitado à informação, a incidência de mulheres
que ingerem bebidas alcoólicas durante a gestação é de 10% (POPOVA et al,
2017). Esse fator está correlacionado com nossa cultura de glamourização da
ingestão de bebida alcoólica.
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