“We wish to thank the AER Foundation’s Small Grants Program for its support and commitment to Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder in Australia”
i cant believe any government is even thinking about doing this. How many women will admit to drinking if they think they will incarcerated somewhere? How will that help in the long term? If you take away the alcohol from an addicted person, that doesnt mean the problem is over. Im sure this is one [...]
Women’s Day – January 15th 2007 A story about Jackie Steele whose son has FAS – “No one warned me it was dangerous. My GP said that up to four units (of alcohol) a week was fine.”
………..Scientific research has well established that adverse health consequences from abusing alcohol can occur, not just at certain points in pregnancy, but throughout it. In the article in UCLA Women’s Law Journal titled “The Meaning, Status, and Future of Reproductive Autonomy: The Case of Alcohol Use During Pregnancy,” researchers found states with few elected women [...]
The International Conference on FASD will be held in Victoria BC in March. My employer ITEC Employment has sponsored me to go to this conference and I’m really grateful to them. They see how FASD and fetal alcohol syndrome fits into the work they do in the Northern Territory and the NPA. If anyone would [...]