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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“Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) impact alcohol use during pregnancy. Understanding the impact of SDoH across pregnancy will elucidate important information to reduce rates of prenatal alcohol exposure… healthcare providers should screen all pregnant women for alcohol use throughout pregnancy, especially among populations or groups identified as being vulnerable to continue alcohol use during pregnancy.”
- Biology of Sex Differences

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This letter from Dr. Leigh Henderson states, “Due to the stigma of FASD, the common lack of proof of prenatal alcohol exposure, lack of clinical awareness and lack of disability support, the FASD diagnosis is often overlooked. It is only when treatment of the person as only having ADHD is shown to be ineffective and a comprehensive diagnosis is done, that these individuals are on the pathway to understanding and addressing their condition.”

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