Cowichan Valley Citizen
(Canada) - FASD has huge impact on homelessness
Reading
such descriptions leads one to contemplate circumstances leading up
to the Lewis Street raid, and the causes for homelessness. One
wonders, also, about application of the adage “to turn off the tap
as well as to mop the floor”. Provision of housing and other
supports is important.
2
Minute Medicine - Developmental assessment at 9 months of age can
predict fetal alcohol syndrome
In
this prospective cohort study, infants underwent developmental and
dysmorphologic assessments at various times throughout early life.
BBC
News (UK) - Foetal alcohol spectrum disorder: Mum's fight for
diagnosis
An
adoptive mum has spoken of her "lonely and isolating"
journey to getting a diagnosis for her children's Foetal Alcohol
Spectrum Disorder.
CBC.ca
(Canada) - Fetal alcohol disorder advocate calls for inquiry into
inmate's death
A
Canadian advocate for people with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder is
calling for a public inquiry into a recent prison death.
My
Yellowknife Now (Canada) - Recent workshop focuses on preventing
FASD and reducing harms related to polysubstance use in pregnancy
The
Department of Health and Social Services recently hosted a workshop
in Yellowknife titled “Doorways to Conversation: Substance Use with
Girls and Women in Pregnancy and Beyond” featuring keynote speakers
Dr. Nancy Poole and Dr. Lorraine Greaves.
BabyGaga
- The Painful Reality Of Living With Fetal Alcohol Spectrum
Disorder
Fetal
Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) can have an immense impact on an
individual's lifestyle and can also leave a child with lifelong
disabilities.
The
Irish Sun (Northern-Ireland) - Local heroes from all walks of
Northern Ireland life set to be celebrated at SuperValu SuperStars
awards night
Brothers
Reece and Jordan McNamara from Dromore have been instrumental in
helping their parents to set up of local charity FASD Aware NI, which
raises awareness of Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders.
Drymester
(UK) - ALCOHOL AND ME, YOU AND PARENTS-TO-BE
This
week #DRYMESTER is supporting the annual Alcohol Awareness Week. This
year’s theme is ‘Alcohol and Me’, providing a chance for people
right across the UK to get thinking about their own drinking.
NOFAS
- New Senate Bill Will Help Children and Adults Living with FASD
New
legislation to authorize comprehensive Fetal Alcohol Spectrum
Disorders (FASD) support services, public health prevention, and
research programs across agencies within the U.S. Departments of
Health and Human Services, Education, and Justice has been introduced
this week in the U.S. Senate.
Beacon
(UK) - How FASD Can Affect Pupil Behaviour (And What You Can Do
About It)
Teachers
often teach pupils with a range of diagnoses. In fact, it's highly
likely you have children with a clinical diagnosis of some form in
your classroom.
VIDEOS
and MATERIALS
Healthcare
Improvement Scotland - SIGN Guideline on Fetal alcohol Spectrum
Disorder (FASD)
The
clinical guideline was published in 2019. It is based on what we know
from current research. Some parts of the clinical guideline were
adapted from the Canadian guideline for diagnosing FASD.
CAMP-
A FASD Community - We are CAMP | Summer Camp Video
Learn
more about the only summer camp in the nation specialized for
children (ages 9 to 18) with FASD! Dates and rates for our 2019
programs to be announced this fall.
ThinkTech
Hawaii - The lasting effects of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (Finding
Respect in the Chaos)
American
Academy of Pediatrics - Alcohol and Pregnancy: It’s Just Not
Worth the Risk
There's
no guarantee that a baby will be born healthy or grow up healthy.
However, there is an absolute guarantee that a child will not have a
fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) if a mother does not drink
alcohol while pregnant.
All
Wales Forum - 'Think brain, not blame' A short film about FASD
This
is a short film that offers an introduction to FASD and provides an
insight into what life is like for one child who is living with it.
Connecting
Foster & Kinship Carers SA CF&KC-SA - Fetal Alcohol
Spectrum Disorder - Stewart McDougall – CFKC
Researcher
Stewart McDougall shares his findings on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum
Disorder and is joined by Alice Wilson who relates some of her
experiences of caring for a young person with FASD.
Werry
Workforce Whāraurau - Champions’ Forum - Michelle Brewerton, Te
Pou o te Whakaaro Nui, FASD
Hosted
by Werry Workforce Whāraurau, SPHC: Supporting Parents Healthy
Children Champions' Forum 2019
BRAD!BRYAN
Multimedia - It’s Not Worth the Risk
This
public service announcement aims to raise awareness about Fetal
Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, or FASD. It was created for the Florida
Center for Early Childhood, a not-for-profit organization
specializing in child development.
Teachers
pay teachers - Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Pack (FASD) -
Child Development
Fetal
Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Pack provides great resources for teaching
high school students about the dangers of consuming alcohol while
pregnant.
RESEARCH
Alcoholism:
Clinical and Experimental Research - The impact of paternal
alcohol consumption on offspring brain and behavioral development
These
results demonstrate that the developmental impact of preconception
PatEE is more harmful than previously thought and provide additional
insights into the biological mechanisms that may underlie atypical
behavior observed in children of alcoholic fathers.
Pediatrics
- Early-Life Predictors of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
Assessment
of a combination of growth, dysmorphology, and neurobehavioral
characteristics allows for accurate identification of most children
with FASD as early as 9 to 18 months.
Pediatrics
- Early Detection of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: An Elusive
but Critical Goal
Fetal
alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) comprise the most common
preventable cause of neurodevelopmental disabilities worldwide, with
prevalence estimates of 1.1% to 5.0% in the United States and Western
Europe1 and 13.6% to 20.9% in South Africa.
Human
Brain Mapping - Multivariate models of brain volume for
identification of children and adolescents with fetal alcohol
spectrum disorder
Magnetic
resonance imaging (MRI) studies of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder
(FASD) have shown reductions of brain volume associated with prenatal
exposure to alcohol.
Alcohol
- Maternal Iron Nutriture Modulates Placental Development in a Rat
Model of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
Prenatal
alcohol exposure (PAE) causes developmental abnormalities known as
fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD). Maternal iron status
modulates the severity of these defects in the offspring. Because the
placenta is central in supporting fetal development, we investigated
if maternal iron status similarly modulates alcohol’s effects in
the placenta.
Advances
Inpediatric Research - Comparison of the 4-Digit Code, Canadian
2015, Australian 2016 and Hoyme 2016 fetal alcohol spectrum disorder
diagnostic guidelines
The
needs of individuals with FASD are best met when diagnostic systems
provide accurate, validated diagnoses across the lifespan, the full
spectrum of outcome, the full continuum of alcohol exposure; and
utilize diagnostic nomenclature that accurately reflects the
association between outcome and alcohol exposure.
British
Journal of Pharmacology - Prenatal and postnatal alcohol exposure
increases vulnerability to cocaine addiction in adult mice
Our
findings demonstrate that maternal binge‐like alcohol consumption
during gestation and lactation alters sensitivity to the reinforcing
effects of cocaine in adult offspring mice.
Universitat
Duisburg Essen - Substance use and psychiatric comorbidities in
adult FASD patients
In
Germany, data on adult FASD patients and their mental health are
rare. The study aims
to
describe substance use patterns and psychiatric comorbidities in
adult FASD patients.
Alcoholism:
Clinical and Experimental Research - Fetal Alcohol Spectrum
Disorders in a Pacific Southwest City: Maternal and Child
Characteristics
Data
from this general population sample in a large urban region in the
United States demonstrate the variability of expression of FASD and
point to risk and protective factors for mothers in this setting.
Alcoholism:
Clinical and Experimental Research - Prenatal alcohol exposure
alters error detection during simple arithmetic processing: An EEG
study
Arithmetical
error‐related theta activity is altered by PAE and can be used to
distinguish between exposed and nonexposed individuals and within
diagnostic groups, supporting the use of numerical and quantitative
processing patterns to derive a neurocognitive profile that could
facilitate diagnosis and treatment of fetal alcohol spectrum
disorders.
European
Journal of Public Health - Monitoring Fetal Alcohol Spectrum
Disorder during the neonatal period in France
This
study is the first to produce a national estimate of the frequency of
neonatal diagnosis of FAS. It shows a stability of the frequency of
pFASD cases recorded over the 2006-2013 period which is certainly
underestimated but gives a first minimal estimate of the burden of
alcohol use during pregnancy in France.
Neuropathology
and Applied Neurobiology - Factors associated with atypical brain
development in preterm infants: insights from magnetic resonance
imaging
Future
challenges are to analyse quantitative brain MRI data with collateral
biological and environmental data in study designs that support
causal inference, and ultimately to use the output of such analyses
to stratify infants for clinical trials of therapies designed to
improve outcome.
Frontiers
in Psychiatry - Parents with Mental and/or Substance Use Disorders
and their Children
Families
living with parental mental and substance use disorders face
considerable biopsychosocial and, oftentimes, socioeconomic
challenges, with complex pathways to mitigating risk, enhancing
resilience in children and youth, and supporting recovery in adults
who are parents.
Nursing
Problems - Students’ knowledge about foetal alcohol syndrome and
their alcohol drinking habits
It
has been shown that the field of study significantly affects the
level of knowledge about FAS. Sex significantly influences drinking
habits. The type and the amount of alcohol consumed by the students
was related with their opinions about abstinence during pregnancy.
European
Journal of Public Health - Pregnancy warning labels on alcohol
packaging: results of an exploratory study
This
study highlights the need for changes to pictogram currently used on
alcohol packaging in France. Our results show that recent changes
proposed by the French government (a slight increase in the size of
the current pictogram) will most likely have little effect on
preventing alcohol consumption during pregnancy.
Drug
and Alcohol Dependence - Co-use of alcohol, tobacco, and licit and
illicit controlled substances among pregnant and non-pregnant women
in the United States: Findings from 2006 to 2014 National Survey on
Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) data
Co-use
of several substances, including and especially of tobacco, alcohol
and cannabis, persists among pregnant women in the United States.
Journal
of addiction medicine - Screening, Brief Intervention, and
Referral to Treatment for Prenatal Alcohol Use and Cigarette Smoking
Healthcare
providers report universal screening for prenatal alcohol and
cigarette smoking; however, brief intervention and referral to
treatment are more limited practices.
IN
OTHER LANGUAGES
Regenbogen
(Germany) - Enissa leidet unter ADHS, ADS und FASD - ihr Mutter
ist drogenabhängig
Mit
ausgestreckten Armen und einem breiten Lächeln werde ich von Heike
und Frank empfangen. Dann kommt Enissa um die Ecke in den Hausgang
geflitzt und mustert mich mit ihren dunkelbraunen Augen. Aufgeweckt
sieht sie aus. Wir verstehen uns auf Anhieb! Sie fragt wer ich sei
und als ich ihr sage, dass ich vom Radio komme, werden ihre Augen
groß!
BBC
Afrique - Leur maman avait bu l'alcool pendant ses grossesses, les
enfants en paient le prix
Reece,
11 ans, et son frère Jordan, 10 ans, n'aiment pas le changement.
Leur mère, Alison, dit que chaque jour est comme le jour de la
marmotte, obligeant la famille McNamara à suivre une routine
stricte.
La
Vanguardia (Granada) - Conferencia aborda los problemas del
consumo de alcohol durante el embarazo
La
Escuela Andaluza de Salud Pública (EASP), con sede en Granada y
dependiente de la Consejería de Salud y Familias, acogerá los días
22 y 23 de noviembre la I Conferencia Nacional sobre el Trastorno del
Espectro Alcohólico Fetal, primera causa de trastorno del
neurodesarrollo.
ConSalud
(Spain) - La exposición al alcohol en el embarazo aumenta la
vulnerabilidad al consumo de cocaína en ratones
Los
ratones que han tenido una exposición prenatal al alcohol reportan
alteraciones en el circuito de su cerebro que los hace más
susceptibles a desarrollar adicción por la cocaína.
Verneri
(Finland) - FASD eri ikäkausina
Alkoholille
altistunut lapsi saattaa syntyessään kärsiä alkoholin
aiheuttamista vieroitusoireista: vastasyntynyt tärisee ja hänellä
on kouristuksia.
