Derry Journal - ‘Too Young to
Drink’ campaign launch
The Drink Think
Project, based in Derry, launched their part of the European ‘Too
Young To drink’ campaign at Guildhall Square on Tuesday.
National Institutes of Health (USA) -
NIH statement on International FASD Awareness Day
International
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) Awareness Day, recognized
every year on Sept. 9th, is an important reminder that prenatal
alcohol exposure is the leading preventable cause of birth defects
and developmental disorders in the United States.
TIME - This Is Your Child’s Brain
on Alcohol
Social scientists
have calculated that detrimental effects of alcohol cost the U.S.
some $223.5 billion a year. We’re talking health issues such as
liver disease, impaired driving, lost work due to hangovers, and
emergency room visits. Alcohol costs substantially more to Americans
than the harmful effects of illicit drug use ($151.4 billion) or
tobacco ($167.8 billion).
CBC.ca (Canada) -
Alcohol-related disabilities 'invisible' in Canada, advocates say
FASDay, a global
awareness day for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD), is held on
the ninth day of the ninth month for a reason. That's to drive home
the point that during the nine months of pregnancy no amount of
alcohol is considered medically safe.
Medical Daily -
International Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Awareness Day Aims
To Help Save Babies From Birth Defects: Don't Drink While You're
Pregnant
In the advent of
International Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) Awareness Day
on Sept. 9, the National Institutes of Health emphasizes the
importance of abstaining from alcohol consumption while pregnant.
Gant Daily - Binge
drinking during pregnancy ups kids risk mental problems, poor school
exam results
Binge drinking
during pregnancy can increase the risk of hyperactivity and
inattention in children aged 11 and can have a negative effect on
their school examination results, according to a study by British and
Australian researchers.
Albuquerque
Journal (USA) - UNM opens new center to study FASD
The University of
New Mexico has launched the nation’s only research center targeting
fetal alcohol syndrome disorder, with support from an $8.1 million
federal grant, the center’s director said.
Park Rapids
Enterprise - Expecting moms need to remember 0-4-9
Every week in
Minnesota, more than 100 babies are born with a greater risk of
developing brain damage. All because their mothers decided to drink
alcohol during their pregnancies.
News-Medical.net -
Study urges women not to drink during full nine months of
pregnancy
"When a
pregnant woman drinks alcohol so does her baby," said Kenneth
Lyons Jones, MD, chief of the Division of Dysmorphology and
Teratology in the Department of Pediatrics at University of
California, San Diego School of Medicine. "So why take the
risk?"
New Zealand Doctor
Online (New Zealand) - Experts to thrash out action plan for
Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
Experts on Foetal
Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) are gathering in Auckland this
Friday (5 September) to discuss an action plan for research, policy,
prevention and care for those affected by the condition.
The Guardian -
Prenatal alcohol consumption linked to mental health problems
Children of
mothers who drink as little as four units of alcohol in a day even
once while pregnant are at greater risk of developing mental health
problems and doing less well at school, new research claims.
SundayNews.co.nz
(New Zealand) - Cut drinks before you conceive
New Zealand's
binge-drinking culture is putting unborn babies at risk, a Taranaki
health promoter says. Jill Nicholls, of the Taranaki District Health
Board, said pregnant women and those planning to become pregnant
should avoid all alcohol.
VIDEOS and MATERIALS
TOO YOUNG TO DRINK - Video spot
Launched on
September 9th 2014, on the occasion of the International Fetal
Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Day, #TooYoungToDrink is a new
communication campaign to raise awareness of the risks of drinking
alcohol during pregnancy conceived by #Fabrica for the European FASD
Alliance.
TOO YOUNG TO DRINK – Backstage
video
FASD (Fetal
Alcohol Spectrum Disorders) is a range of problems caused by prenatal
exposure to alcohol which can include birth defects, learning
disorders, behavioral problems, and mental illness.
Expert calls for greater support,
education to combat FASD
Australian Centre
for Child Protection UniSA - Stewart McDougall, 'Interventions for
children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders'
This study
examined the existing literature on interviews for children with
Fetal Alcohol Syndrom (FASD). Importantly to the child protection
context, FASD is likely to be over-represented and can have important
implications for family support.
FASD, "Breaking the Silence"
The FASD Trust -
International FASD Day, 9th September 2014, Event with MPs in the
Houses of Parliament - FASD is often called the Invisible Disability,
unknown and not talked about. This video is called "Breaking the
Silence; Let's Talk About FASD."
UPCOMING
Third European Conference on FASD -
20 to 22 October 2014
Building on the
success of the first European conference on FASD (Kerkrade,
Netherlands, 2010) and the second European conference on FASD
(Barcelona, Spain, 2012), we are pleased to announce the third
European conference on FASD, to be held in Rome.
First Baltic Conference on FASD -
26th September 2014
Conference aims to
raise awareness of health policy makers, medical doctors, public
health professionals, social and educational workers about prevention
of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD), provision of support and
special education for children who have FASD.
Decoding FASD: Fetal Alcohol
Spectrum Disorder Conference - 14th October 2014
Decoding FASD:
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Conference for health professional
(GPs, health visitors, nurses), social workers, foster carers,
teachers, parents and guardians.
Education Forum Roadshow - FASD:
Implications for Education
Follow the link
below to find out more about the Education Roadshow, the Education
Professionals Forum and how we are building on the momentum in 2014
created by the success of its launch in 2013.
RESEARCH
Developmental
Psychobiology - Exposure to ethanol on prenatal days 19-20
increases ethanol intake and palatability in the infant rat:
involvement of kappa and mu opioid receptors
Prenatal exposure
to ethanol on gestation Days 19-20, but not 17-18, increases ethanol
acceptance in infant rats. This effect seems to be a conditioned
response acquired prenatally, mediated by the opioid system, which
could be stimulated by ethanol's pharmacological properties
(mu-opioid receptors) or by a component of the amniotic fluid from
gestation-day 20 (kappa-inducing factor).
BMC Pediatrics -
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder: development of consensus referral
criteria for specialist diagnostic assessment in Australia
Referral criteria
recommended for use in Australia are similar to those recommended in
North America. There is a need to develop resources to raise
awareness of these criteria among health professionals and evaluate
their feasibility, acceptability and capacity to improve the
identification of FASD in Australia.
Developmental
Neuroscience - Physiological correlates of neurobehavioral
disinhibition that relate to drug use and risky sexual behavior in
adolescents with prenatal substance exposure
Physiological
correlates of behavioral and emotional problems, substance use onset
and initiation of risky sexual behavior have not been studied in
adolescents with prenatal drug exposure.
Alcohol - Chronic
prenatal ethanol exposure alters expression of central and peripheral
insulin signaling molecules in adult guinea pig offspring
Maternal ethanol
consumption during pregnancy can produce a range of teratogenic
outcomes in offspring. The mechanism of ethanol teratogenicity is
multi-faceted, but may involve alterations in insulin and
insulin-like growth factor (IGF) signaling pathways.
Alcoholism:
Clinical and Experimental Research - Overweight and obesity among
children and adolescents with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders
Rates of
overweight/obesity are increased in children with partial FAS. In
adolescents, rates are increased for any FASD diagnosis (particularly
in females). Results are suggestive of possible metabolic/endocrine
disruption in FASD—a hypothesis for which there is evidence from
animal models.
Neurotoxicology
and Teratology - Molecular and morphological changes in zebrafish
following transient ethanol exposure during defined developmental
stages
Alcohol is a
teratogen that has diverse effects on brain and craniofacial
development, leading to a constellation of developmental disorders
referred to as fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD).
Adicciones - New
informative and prevention programs in Europe to reduce the risks
associated to alcohol consumption during pregnancy and the appearance
of Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
In the last 40
years a vast mass of clinical, epidemiological and experimental
evidence has demonstrated that alcohol is a teratogenic agent and
that its consumption during gestation can cause foetal death,
malformations and cognitive and behavioral dysfunctions in the
exposed fetus.
Developmental
Psychobiology - Significant long-term, but not short-term,
hippocampal-dependent memory impairment in adult rats exposed to
alcohol in early postnatal life
In rodents,
ethanol exposure in early postnatal life is known to induce
structural and functional impairments throughout the brain, including
the hippocampus. Herein, rat pups were administered one of three
ethanol doses over postnatal days (PD) 4-9, a period of brain
development comparable to the third trimester of human pregnancy.
IN OTHER
LANGUAGES
Onet.pl (Poland) -
Dziś przypada Światowy Dzień FAS
Dziś przypada
Światowy Dzień FAS (Fetal Alcohol Syndrome) - syndrom alkoholowego
zespołu płodowego, który jest skutkiem działania alkoholu na płód
w okresie prenatalnym. Jest chorobą nieuleczalną, przed którą
chroni jedynie abstynencja matki w czasie ciąży.
GravidanzaOnLine.it
(Italy) - Feti in bottiglia per la campagna shock contro l'alcol
in gravidanza
Il 9 settembre, in
occasione della Giornata internazionale della sindrome feto-alcolica
e disturbi correlati, la European FASD Alliance ha lanciato Too young
to drink (troppo piccolo per bere), una campagna di comunicazione che
ha lo scopo di aumentare la consapevolezza del rischio dei FASD
(fetal alcohol spectrum disorders), una serie di possibili disordini
causati dall’esposizione del feto all’alcol: malformazioni alla
nascita, disturbi dell’apprendimento, del comportamento e disturbi
mentali.
Kehitysvammaliitto
(Finland) - FASD-päivä 9.9. muistuttaa raskaudenaikaisen
alkoholinkäytön vaaroista
Tiistaina 9.9.
vietetään kansainvälistä FASD-päivää. Lyhenne FASD tarkoittaa
sikiöaikaisen alkoholialtistuksen aiheuttamien vaikutusten kirjoa.
Frauenzimmer
(Germany) - Alkohol in der Schwangerschaft: So schädlich ist der
Konsum für die Kinder
In Deutschland
kommen jährlich etwa 8.000 Kinder mit fetalem Alkoholsyndrom zur
Welt – einer Krankheit, die durch den Alkoholkonsum der Mutter
verursacht wird. Das Baby im Bauch trinkt immer mit, kann den Alkohol
nicht abbauen. Trotzdem gehen viele Frauen zu leichtsinnig mit
Alkohol in der Schwangerschaft um.
Gezondheid.be
(Belgium) - Internationale Foetaal Alcohol Syndroom Dag
Het foetaal
alcohol syndroom (FAS) is een combinatie van aangeboren afwijkingen
bij een baby die veroorzaakt zijn door alcoholgebruik van de moeder
tijdens de zwangerschap. Afwijkingen variëren van mentale
achterstand en gedragsafwijkingen tot manifeste misvormingen in het
aangezicht.
RTV Slovenija
(Slovenia) - Svarila pred uživanjem alkohola med nosečnostjo
Deveti september
je posvečen mednarodnemu dnevu ozaveščanja o fetalnem alkoholnem
sindromu (FASD), ki ga v Sloveniji prvič zaznamujemo, in sicer s
kampanjo ozaveščanja o tveganjih zaradi pitja alkohola med
nosečnostjo.
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