“A new study by a team of researchers in the Collaborative Initiative on FASD (CIFASD) finds that partners of mothers-to-be can directly influence a pregnant woman’s likelihood of drinking alcohol.  The study highlights the importance of engaging partners in intervention and prevention efforts to help pregnant women avoid drinking alcohol.”

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“Adults with alcohol use disorder often used health care services and received alcohol use screening, but few were referred to or received treatment, according to recent data, a “significant implementation gap in [alcohol use disorder] treatment.”

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“Estimates of alcohol use among women aged 18 to 44 vary from state to state. Data come from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), a telephone survey that tracks national and state-specific self-reported health risk behaviors of adults, 18 years and older, in the United States.”

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 “Exposure to prenatal alcohol can result in ophthalmological abnormalities. In those diagnosed with FASDs, such ophthalmic abnormalities often result in visual perception problems (VPPs).”

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Here at CAMP - A FASD Community, we are pleased to offer our annual, week-long, flagship program for children and adolescents ages 9 - 18 diagnosed with, or suspected to have FAS/FASD.

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 "At birth, only complete Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) can be properly diagnosed. However, other Consequences of prenatal Alcohol Exposure can also be recorded. Our objective was to describe the frequency of diagnoses highly suggestive of potential FASD.”
- Drug and Alcohol Dependence

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