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...
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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...
A recent article in Medical News Today noted that worldwide, an estimated 119,000 children are born with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) each year.
Welcome to the New Year and the first edition of Act on Alcohol newsletter for 2017. The Act on Alcohol Team are well and truly back into the swing of...
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) includes a continuum of disorders that occur in children as a result of their mothers’ consumption of alcohol during pregnancy.