“Exposure to alcohol through a mother’s breastmilk can have serious and lasting implications for brain and behavioral development in children. Researchers found alcohol exposure via breastmilk resulted in smaller body and brain growth and decreased cortical length in mouse models.”
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“Hospitals are more likely to give drug tests to Black women delivering babies than white women, regardless of the mother’s history of substance use, suggests a new study of a health system in Pennsylvania. And such excessive testing was unwarranted, the study found: Black women were less likely than white women to test positive for drugs.”
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“Prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) was associated with increased alcohol, cannabis, and cigarette use…. PAE was related to enhanced alcohol tolerance in young adults, a risk factor for alcohol use disorder later in life.”
- Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s, Drink Less, Be Your Best, is an online communications campaign that encourages young adults and adults who drink excessively to drink less to improve their quality of life, relationships, and health. Individuals can check their drinking levels, identify their motivators and barriers to drinking less, learn about binge and heavy drinking, and develop a personalized plan to drink less.
Additional CDC resources on preventing excessive alcohol use can be found here.
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“Fathers-to-be are being encouraged to join the slowly increasing trend of those going alcohol free in solidarity with their pregnant partners. Men who have abstained say it made them feel closer to their partners on the journey to parenthood.”
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“The results support that heavy prenatal ethanol exposure (PE) leads to persistent anxiety-like behavior during adulthood in both sexes. This conclusion is supported by using multiple parameters of exploratory behavior.”
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