The NC Injury and Violence Prevention Branch recently released two new alcohol-related pages. 

The Alcohol and Related Harms Data page includes statewide summary data as well as interactive visuals of state and county-level metrics for partners across North Carolina to understand the impacts of excessive alcohol use in their communities. The Alcohol Use and Related Harms Prevention page provides general information and prevention strategies to reduce excessive alcohol use and its related harms.

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FASD United is proud to join our NPN partner the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) on this important workshop on August 20, 2025.  “Roxanne Chang, MD, FAAP (from AAP) and Jennifer Wisdahl (from FASD United) will present a professional webinar which will focus on enhancing care coordination for children from birth to five years old and their families affected by FASD. This event will emphasize the importance of universal screening and an interdisciplinary approach.”

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 A special section, “Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Prevention and Intervention,” was included in a recent issue of Substance Use & Addiction Journal (SAj)—the official journal of the Association for Multidisciplinary Education and Research in Substance use and Addiction. The articles represent the work of 11 cooperative agreements formerly funded by CDC to explore and describe the rationale, approaches, and challenges in implementing FASD prevention and intervention strategies and practices.

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“Exposure to alcohol in utero can have enduring health effects across the lifespan, including increased risks related to strokes in midlife, according to new research. The preclinical study found that fetal alcohol exposure significantly influences how well someone in middle age will recover after a stroke.”

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“The nation’s pediatricians are getting new guidelines for how to go about evaluating children who present with global developmental delay or intellectual disability. Doctors should use genetic testing to assess children early, according to a clinical report from the American Academy of Pediatrics published recently in the journal Pediatrics.”

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 “A team of researchers at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles analyzed data to understand the effects of prenatal exposure to tobacco and alcohol on brain development into adolescence… “We investigated whether prenatal alcohol and tobacco exposure were associated with how the brain changed across time at least 10 years after these exposures would have occurred,” says Andrew Marshall, PhD, lead author on the study.”

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