Ninety per cent of inmates at the provincial jail in Kenora, Ont., are Indigenous and all of them are suffering from mental illness, cognitive impairment.
Vicki Russell
[nothing about FASD] “Ninety per cent of inmates at the provincial jail in Kenora, Ont., are Indigenous and all of them are suffering from mental illness, cognitive impairment...
“…case law reviews can illuminate the complexities of accounting for FASD during legal proceedings…”
Fetal AlcoholSpectrum Disorder (FASD) refers to a set of pervasive, life-long conditionscaused by prenatal alcohol exposure. The consequences associated with prenatalalcohol exposure can contribute to a host of...
Community-based and individual-level prevention strategies are effective ways to reduce alcohol use among American Indian and other youth living in rural communities, according to a new...
Heidi Bager: "...The most common clinical tool to determine fetal alcohol exposure is
maternal self-reporting. However, a more objective and useful method is based
on the use of...
During the first half, Svetlana Popova, PhD, Senior Scientist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health’s Institute for Mental Health Policy Research in Toronto joined me to discuss a new...
"...What society does not recognize,
however, is the critical role birth moms play in improving the lives of those
affected by FASD, and in preventing more alcohol exposed pregnancies..."
The alcohol industry makes claims to governments that contradict and obfuscate science in an attempt to influence marketing regulations and prevent more stringent controls on products, an Australian...
The IASSIDD Health SIRG will be holding a conference in Belfast, N Ireland on the 19th-21st June 2017 at the Hilton Hotel. The theme of the event...