NEWS and
ARTICLES
The
Stir - Pregnancy Helped Save Me
From Alcohol
For
many years of my adult life, I abused alcohol. I don't talk about this very
often, but I've been pretty up front about it—at least, as much as I can bear
to be. As a result, people sometimes ask me how I managed to stop drinking. I
wish I had an easy answer for them, or maybe even something uplifting about
doing a personal inventory and finding inner strength and accepting help from
others ... but really, the answer is this: I got pregnant.
The
Hindu - Better safe than sorry
That's
as the popular saying goes and is very relevant for mothers-to-be. There is a
precious life growing inside you that is dependent on you for its very
existence. Taking care of yourself in body and mind for nine months should be
your number one priority to raise a healthy baby and give it the best possible
start in life.
BBC
News - What damage does alcohol do to
our bodies?
We
know that drinking too much alcohol is bad for us. It gives us hangovers, makes
us feel tired and does little for our appearance - and that is just the morning
afterwards.
Concerned
about the number of babies born addicted to drugs, the staff at CAMC's Women's Medicine Center
Helsingin
Sanomat (Finland
Hundreds,
and possibly thousands of children in Finland
Northern
Advocate (New Zealand
Pregnant
women from around Northland took to the streets to raise awareness about the
dangers of drinking during pregnancy. Several events were held in Whangarei,
Kerikeri, Kaitaia, Kaikohe and the Hokianga to mark International Fetal Alcohol
Spectrum Disorders (FASD) Day last week.
Marketing
Week (UK
Drinks
maker Halewood International is targeting pregnant women in a push for alcohol
free wine brand Eisberg that aims to “demystify” the “contradictory” advice
given to women during pregnancy.
Offlicence
News (UK
Alcohol-free
wine Eisberg has launched a campaign aimed at pregnant women. The campaign aims
to “help demystify the contradicting information and advice given to women in
the early stages of pregnancy and offer a healthy alternative to drinking
alcohol”.
Victoria
Times Colonist (Canada
The
editorial pointed out the harms that face our society related to alcohol use as
B.C. and Vancouver Island face increased
consumption. One consequence not mentioned in the article is fetal alcohol
spectrum disorder. Every year, approximately 3,000 infants are born in Canada
The
Daily Telegraph (UK
THE
first ever motion recognising foetal alcohol syndrome was passed in parliament
last week, with the condition the leading cause of non-genetic disability in
children.
It
costs Canadians at least $5.3 billion, affects at least 11,000 Manitobans and
clogs jails, welfare rolls and the health-care system. But fetal alcohol
spectrum disorder earned barely a mention on the campaign trail until Wednesday
-- Day 25 -- when Liberal Leader Jon Gerrard promised to track and count kids
with the disability.
BCLocalNews
- What it's like to live with FASD
During
the Sept. 9 Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Awareness Day in 100 Mile House,
Shirlana Vance read out the following speech that she had prepared for the
occasion.
MATERIALS
CAMH –
Addiction Toolkit: Alcohol Use in
Pregnancy
The
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) has an on-line toolkit for health
care providers who work in a primary care setting and who have patients with
substance use problems. The have recently added two new sections on Alcohol
problems in women and Alcohol use in pregnancy.
Call for Papers - Special Issue on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum
Disorders
The
International Journal of Alcohol and Drug Research, a peer-reviewed,
free-of-charge, open access journal and the official Journal of the Kettil
Bruun Society for Social and Epidemiological Research on Alcohol (KBS), invites
the submission of papers on biomedical, psychological, and sociological aspects
related to Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD), to be featured in this
special issue to be published in December, 2012.
Parenting with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
This
paper focuses on issues associated with parenting and living with FASD. It is
based on a larger research and video production project that examined the
challenges, accomplishments and support needs of adults with FASD in relation
to parenting, employment and the legal system.
Review of: "FASD Relationships - What I Have Learned
from About Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder"
Rod
Densmore is both a medical practitioner and a parent of a young adult with
FASD. He addresses the complex issues of FASD as a parent and medical
professional in an user-friendly language book and also available as a 5-DVD
set.
RESEARCH
Alcoholism
- A Limited Access Mouse Model of
Prenatal Alcohol Exposure that Produces Long-Lasting Deficits in
Hippocampal-Dependent Learning and Memory
It
has been estimated that approximately 12% of women consume alcohol at some time
during their pregnancy, and as many as 5% of children born in the United States
Neuroprotective effects of the 17β-estradiol against
ethanol-induced neurotoxicity and oxidative stress in the developing male rat
cerebellum: Biochem
During
particular periods of central nervous system (CNS) development, exposure to
ethanol can decrease regional brain growth and can result in selective loss of
neurons. Unfortunately, there are few effective means of attenuating damage in
the immature brain.
UPCOMING
EVENTS:
Medusa
meeting – The agenda for the expert conference (October 11-12, 2011) will cover
recent advances in the alcohol related issues including such important topic
as: health consequences of alcohol use, FAS (Fetal Alcohol Syndrome),
epidemiology, alcohol policy.
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