“Ireland is to become the first country in the world to mandate health labelling on alcoholic drinks to alert people to calorie content, grams of alcohol, risks of cancer and liver disease and dangers of drinking while pregnant.”
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Author of It’s OK to Be You: Living Well with FASD or Other Disabilities, and overall amazing human being- Kenny LaJoy kindly accepted an interview to be shared in conjunction with our “Yes I Am” campaign (a follow-up to “Yes I Can”).
Being an FASD advocate is a somewhat new venture for Kenny, but his favorite part is the community
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This FASD United blog post states, “Researchers looked at data ranging from 1972 to 2016 to assess the efficacy of policies related to alcohol use during pregnancy. The authors specifically looked at how both supportive policies and punitive policies impacted alcohol use during pregnancy.”
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This episode of the FASD Hope podcast “welcomes back Laura Bedard of MASSFAS, an FASD United Affiliate. Laura is also a Family Navigator with FASD United.
In this hope-filled episode, Laura shares: her family's FASD journey, the inspiration behind her second book, and FASD United's "Family Navigator" program.”
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“Decades of research have firmly established the importance of asking primary care patients about their alcohol use, providing brief advice about reducing alcohol misuse, and referring them to appropriate alcohol treatments, as necessary.”
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“In a new study published in Drug and Alcohol Dependence, CDC scientists analyzed data from the 2019 Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) survey from 25 U.S. jurisdictions to examine polysubstance use… These findings underscore the importance of messaging about the risks of polysubstance use during pregnancy and the importance of screening for multiple substances.”
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