National Post - Canadian study
identifies five most vulnerable groups for FASD
Fetal Alcohol
Spectrum Disorder is substantially more prevalent for people in five
vulnerable groups including children in care, Indigenous populations
and people in prison, according to a global study by Canadian
researchers.
Nunatsiaq News
(Canada) - Yes, it’s possible to screen for FASD, experts say
An unknown number
of Nunavut residents with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, or FASD,
are being denied the help they need, because territorial agencies do
little screening or diagnosis and because no one has ever tried to
pull together information that already exists on the disability’s
prevalence.
Wadena Pioneer
Journal - Fetal alcohol syndrome is 100% preventable
Are you between
the ages of 18-35? Are you thinking about becoming pregnant? Even if
you aren't planning on becoming pregnant, did you know 50% of
pregnancies are unplanned? That means 50% of women who are pregnant
were not expecting to be pregnant and may use alcohol in the early,
most critical stage of a baby's development.
Daily Pioneer - No
amount of alcohol safe during pregnancy: Study
Teenagers who are
exposed to alcohol while in the womb exhibit altered brain
connections consistent with impaired cognitive performance, according
to a study.
Scottish Daily
Record (Scotland) - The campaigning family with a personal
interest in foetal alcohol syndrome
Maryelen and her
husband Billy have six kids . . . three birth children and three they
lovingly adopted. The birth mother’s heavy drinking during
pregnancy left the three adoptive kids with foetal alcohol spectrum
disorder.
Brinkwire - Not
even one glass of wine a week is safe during pregnancy, study finds
No amount of
alcohol is safe for women to drink while they’re pregnant,
according to research. Drinking can harm the development of a baby’s
brain in any quantity or at any stage during pregnancy, scientists
found.
Microbioz India -
Lifestyle factors affecting on reproductive function in male and
female – A Complete Review
Infertility is a
worldwide issue affecting 15-18% of couples globally, amounting more
than 45 million couples. In the era of increasing awareness, many
things are changing and already changed.
CanFASD Blog
(Canada) - Guest blog: Thoughts on the FASD International
Conference- Shelley More
I had the great
fortune to attend 3 days of the International FASD Conference,
Vancouver at the beginning of March thanks to the generous
sponsorship of CanFASD.
CAMH - Fetal
Alcohol Spectrum Disorder prevalence up to 40 times higher in some
subpopulations worldwide
Fetal Alcohol
Spectrum Disorder (FASD) affects people from all racial, ethnic and
sociological backgrounds. However a major new review of the world
literature has found that FASD is 10 to 40 times higher in certain
groups than the general population according to a study published by
the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in the journal Addiction.
HNGN -
Understanding The Tragedy of Brain Damage at Birth
As citizens, we
are accorded with rights to enable our mental and physical
well-being. But there are thousands of unborn children who don't have
such rights because they suffer at the hands of expectant mothers who
risk their lives and well-being, by consuming alcohol and drugs
through their pregnancies.
Change.org
(Canada) - Parents of Children with FASD need support, access to
services and funding.
FASD can be
likened to having a child with Alzheimers. What they learn today,
they may not even remember tomorrow.
Winnipeg Sun
(Canada) - How these Winnipeg classrooms are rethinking lessons
for kids with FASD
‘They’re just
kids that are coming to school. They just want to be accepted and be
successful.’
NOFASD Australia
(Australia) - GOING FOR COFFEE: AN OBSTACLE COURSE OF STIMULUS
Picture an air
filter. What does it do? It stops all the dust and bits from entering
your home and filling your house and body with all sorts of things
they don’t really need. I liken this to what happens when I get
what always feels like an attack – an overload of sensory stimuli.
My filter does not work like everyone else’s – like yours does,
not unless you also have FASD.
Alomogordo Daily
News - Criminalizing disability: Special needs kids who don’t
get help in school are ending up in jail
It was right after
the fifth-period bell last October that Sebastian Montano lay face
down in the grass outside Alamogordo High School, screaming for his
mother, as two police officers pinned him to the ground and thrust a
Taser in his back.
AdoptionUK (UK) -
FASD sufferers 'failed by clinicians' report finds
Sufferers of
Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) are being failed by
clinicians according to a new report published today.
UPCOMING
CoramBAAF (UK) -
Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD): what works for children?
ONE DAY CONFERENCE (23 May 2019, London)
This conference
provides an important opportunity to look at ‘what works’ for
children with FASD. It aims to bring together people who are actively
involved in parenting, caring for, and working with children with
FASD to explore how they might best help families to successfully
manage the disorder, meet the needs of affected children and support
them to reach their full potential.
Graf Recke
Stiftung (Germany) - Fetale Alkoholspektrum-Störung (FASD)
(10.10.2019)
Dass Alkoholkonsum
in der Schwangerschaft schädlich ist, ist bekannt. Dass
Behinderungen, die daraus entstehen können, unter dem Terminus
Fetale Alkoholspektrum-Störung (FASD) gefasst werden und Kinder
nicht aus ihnen »herausgefördert« werden können, ist noch
deutlich zu wenig bekannt.
NTIUPSTREAM - 2019
Webinar 2: Developing a Prenatal SBIRT System – An Ethical Approach
to Prevention and Intervention - Live Webinar (May 14, 2019)
Screening, brief
intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) is a proven strategy
for improving pregnancy outcomes for women who are using a variety of
substances.
VIDEOS and
RESOURCES
fasd.org.pl
(Poland) - Foundation Family fom A to Z
the Foundation
works for FASD to Poland. We have working scientifically and
clinically for children with FASD for many years.In Poland there is
no systemic help for children, so after many years I decided to set
up the 'Family from A to Z Foundation' that would work for children
with FASD living in adoptive and foster families. The Foundation is
active since 2017, and its work is backed up by clinical research
made by prof. A. Urbanik and Teresa Jadczak-Szumiło PhD.
and
Bridgeway Family
Homes - FASD Treatment Homes
Bridgeway
In-Service Training with Amanda Rawn-Alton.
NOFAS-UK - My
Brain, Me And FASD
A resource to help
young people understand their FASD and emphasises coping strategies.
Obstetrics and
gynecology guidelines - Fetal alcohol syndrome, alcohol in
pregnancy
CDC (USA) –
Vital Signs: Pregnancy-related deaths
Every
pregnancy-related death is tragic, especially because about 60% are
preventable. Still, about 700 women die each year from complications
of pregnancy. A pregnancy-related death can happen during pregnancy,
at delivery, and even up to a year afterward (postpartum).
CDC - An
Alcohol-free pregnAncy is the best choice for your bAby.
The organizations
and resources below can provide you with more information on FASDs,
drinking and pregnancy, and how to get help if you are pregnant or
trying to get pregnant and cannot stop drinking.
Red Shoes Rock -
2019 Red Shoes Rock Kick Off
Looking to find
the 2019 Artwork for your Red Shoe Rock Events and Swag – We can’t
wait to see what you do with these – HAVE FUN if you need the
original artwork for translation work email info@redshoesrock.com and
we will help you.
RESEARCH
Addiction -
Prevalence of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder among special
subpopulations: a systematic review and meta‐analysis
Global
subpopulations of children in care, correctional, special education,
specialized clinical and Aboriginal populations have a significantly
higher prevalence of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder compared with
the general population, which poses a substantial global health
problem.
International
Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health - Collaborative
Action on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Prevention: Principles for
Enacting the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Call to Action #33
The consensus
statement provides guidance for developing community- and culture-led
FASD prevention programs and highlights the importance of Indigenous
knowledge systems in developing and researching FASD prevention in,
and with, Indigenous communities.
Contemporary
Justice Review - Aboriginal youth with foetal alcohol spectrum
disorder and enmeshment in the Australian justice system: can an
intercultural form of restorative justice make a difference?
Aboriginal youth
with Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) are overrepresented in
the justice system. FASD results from prenatal alcohol exposure, and
may lead to cognitive, social and behavioural difficulties that
increase susceptibility to contact with the justice system.
Dartmouth College
- Radial Migration and Pyramidal Neuron Form and Function in the
Somatosensory Cortex of a Mouse Model of FASD
INSTITUTE OF
BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES - Roles of very long chain fatty acids in
pathophysiology of FASD
Fetal alcohol
spectrum disorders (FASD) are caused by prenatal alcohol exposure
(PAE). These children suffer from life-long learning and intellectual
disabilities, and other behavioral deficits.
Simon Fraser
University - An Evaluation of the Predictive Validity of the SAVRY
and YLS/CMI in Justice-Involved Youth with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum
Disorder
Despite the high
prevalence of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) in youth
criminal justice settings, there is currently no research supporting
the use of violence risk assessment tools in this population.
Issues in Mental
Health Nursing - Nurses and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
Prevention
This toolkit was
designed for nurses to facilitate the recognition and prevention of
FASD and address gaps that exists around alcohol use.
Health Research
Policy and Systems - To what extent is Fetal Alcohol Spectrum
Disorder considered in policy-related documents in South Africa? A
document review
Although this
study revealed the existence of targeted and generic clauses that
could be attributed to the prevention and management of FASD, the
sustained high prevalence of FASD in South Africa, as reported in the
literature, calls for more holistic and comprehensive approaches to
tackle the FASD problem in South Africa.
Journal of Speech,
Language, and Hearing Research - Listening Difficulties in
Children With Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: More Than a Problem
of Audibility
Children with FAS
but not other FASDs may be at a particular risk for hearing loss.
However, listening difficulties in the absence of hearing
loss—presumably related to suprathreshold processing deficits—are
prevalent across the entire fetal alcohol spectrum.
Birth defects
research - Oxidative stress and DNA damage in the mechanism of
fetal alcohol spectrum disorders
This review covers
molecular mechanisms involving oxidative stress and DNA damage that
may contribute to morphological and functional developmental
disorders in animal models resulting from exposure to alcohol
(ethanol, EtOH) in utero or in embryo culture.
Clinical Archives
of Communication Disorders - Articulation in children with fetal
alcohol syndrome
Results suggest
specific oral motor deficits contribute at least as much to
communication disorder in young FAS speakers as possible
phonetic-linguistic deficits.
Toxicology and
Applied Pharmacology - Glucocorticoid programming mechanism for
hypercholesterolemia in prenatal ethanol-exposed adult offspring rats
Our previous
studies showed that prenatal ethanol exposure (PEE) elevated blood
total cholesterol (TCH) level in adult offspring rats. This study was
aimed at elucidating the intrauterine programming mechanism of
hypercholesterolemia in adult rats induced by PEE.
International
Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health - Fetal
Cerebral Artery Mitochondrion as Target of Prenatal Alcohol Exposure
Prenatal alcohol
exposure results in an array of developmental abnormalities known as
fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs). Despite the high prevalence
of FASDs, therapeutic interventions against accidental or intended
exposure of developing fetuses to alcohol are limited.
Universite de
Rennes - Environmental exposure during pregnancy. Views and
attitudes of general practitioners
The exposure of
pregnant women to toxic environmental agents can lead to serious
damage to the woman as well as to the unborn child; this deserves
particular attention from primary health care services.
Neuropeptides -
Decreased behavioural and neurochemical effects of angiotensin IV
following prenatal alcohol exposure in the mouse
This study aimed
to explore a possible mechanism underlying the sex differences and
the effects of PAE in male mice.
Preventive
Medicine - Risk factors for alcohol use among pregnant women, ages
15–44, in the United States, 2002 to 2017
To prevent severe
prenatal harm, health care providers should focus on women at higher
risk for binge drinking during pregnancy: women with tobacco or drug
use, alcohol use disorder, or depression, and women who are
unmarried, Black, or of lower socioeconomic status.
Journal of
Addiction Medicine - The Association Between Antenatal Maternal
Self-reported Substance Use, Maternal Characteristics, and
Obstetrical Variables
Substance use
disorders during pregnancy are an often underestimated cause of
maternal, fetal, and neonatal complications. Limited studies have
examined the relationship between maternal characteristics and
associated illicit or nonillicit drug use.
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Nauka W Polsce
(Poland) - W ciąży nie ma bezpiecznej ilości alkoholu
Dzieci, których
matki spożywały alkohol w czasie ciąży, mają zaburzone działanie
połączeń w mózgu. Naukowcy twierdzą, że dla płodu nie istnieje
ani bezpieczny okres, w którym można pić, ani bezpieczna ilość
etanolu.
Blogosfere (Italy)
- Alcol in gravidanza: nessuna quantità è sicura
Durante la
gravidanza, non esiste una quantità di alcol sicura da assumere.
Questo è ciò che emerge da un nuovo studio pubblicato sulla rivista
Chaos, dell’American Institute of Physics, i cui autori hanno
scoperto che gli adolescenti che erano stati esposti all'alcol mentre
erano nell'utero mostravano connessioni cerebrali alterate,
associabili a una compromissione delle prestazioni cognitive.
El Medico
Interactivo (Spain) - No hay cantidad segura de alcohol durante el
embarazo
Las personas que
estuvieron expuestos al alcohol en el útero fueron más propensos a
tener problemas con las conexiones a través de su cuerpo calloso