The West Australian (Australia) - No alcohol for pregnant women: campaign
A new West Australian campaign is urging pregnant women to
say no to alcohol. The campaign, the first of its kind in Australia, is aimed
at women of child-bearing age who consume low to moderate amounts of alcohol.
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Herald.ie (Ireland) - Mayor
wants to test babies in poor areas for alcohol
DUBLIN’S mayor wants children to be tested for their mum’s
alcohol use during pregnancy. The call by Lord Mayor Andrew Montague sparked
anger among campaigners. In a suprise move, Mr Montague wants to screen
children in disadavantaged areas for foetal alcohol syndrome.
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WBNG-TV (USA) - Drug
Use During Pregnancy On The Rise
Town of Dickinson, N.Y. (WBNG Binghamton) An increasing
number of drug dependent mothers are showing up at area hospitals. This is
according to the Mothers and Babies Perinatal Network.
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Eurekalert - New
open-access journal fills niche for addictions research
A new open-access journal dedicated to international
perspectives on substance use and addictions research was launched at the
annual meeting of the Kettil Bruun Society for Social and Epidemiological
Research on Alcohol.
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SFU - FASD youth
ill-equipped for legal system – grad
In Canadian criminal law, a suspect’s confession to police
almost always ensures the Crown will file charges, charge “high” and make the
confession central to its case.
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Education Weekly (New Zealand) - FASD: “It is an invisible disability,” says mother
Lisa Smith’s adopted son Aaron has Foetal Alcohol Syndrome.
But the fact the New Zealand government barely recognises his disability makes
it very difficult for families and schools to know how to manage children
affected by this type of brain damage.
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RESOURCES
Do2Learn – A resource
for individuals with special needs
Do2learn provides thousands pages of social skills and
behavioral regulation activities and guidance, learning songs and games,
communication cards, academic material, and transition guides for employment
and life skills.
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Brightening Connections - 3 Tips To Put Your FASD Child’s “Fight” Response To Calm
Is your child hyper-vigilant and inflexible to change? As
guest expert for MOFAS’ Virtual Family Center on Wednesday, May 23, 2012, I
gave parents of children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) three
ideas for calming distress.
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MediciNet - Fetal
Alcohol Syndrome Glossary of Terms
Abnormal: Not normal. Deviating from the usual structure,
position, condition, or behavior. In referring to a growth, abnormal may mean
that it is cancerous or premalignant (likely to become cancer).
RESEARCH
AOGS - Alcohol
prevention in Swedish antenatal care: effectiveness and perceptions of the Risk
Drinking project counseling model
An expanded counseling model implemented in Swedish
antenatal care did not reduce the proportion of women who continued drinking
during pregnancy in comparison with a previous counseling model, although the
advice provided in the new model was perceived more favorably.
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Journal of Population Therapeutics - The History of Alcoholic Fetopathies
During this time he noted the effects of parental alcoholism
on offspring outcome. Here we publish his personal account of researching the
cause of a strange dystrophy around the 1960's with certain children and
alcoholism in their mothers.
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Journal of Population Therapeutics - The First Description of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome by French Pediatrician
Paul Lemoine
Dr. Lemoine’s account demonstrates how much knowledge about
the toxic fetal effects of alcohol was published and known in Europe in the
early 1900’s, half a century before it became public knowledge and a public
health issue.
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Alcohol - Prenatal
ethanol exposure leads to greater ethanol-induced appetitive reinforcement
Prenatal ethanol significantly heightens later alcohol
consumption, but the mechanisms that underlie this phenomenon are poorly
understood. Little is known about the basis of ‘this effect of prenatal ethanol
on the sensitivity to ethanol’s reinforcing effects. One possibility is that
prenatal ethanol exposure makes subjects more sensitive to the appetitive
effects of ethanol or less sensitive to ethanol’s aversive consequences.
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