Amazing Key FASD Facts In Here

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Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) are caused by maternal drinking during pregnancy.

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It is established that no amount of alcohol at any time during pregnancy is harmless.

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Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders are the biggest single cause of mental disabilities in most industrialized countries, and could be totally prevented if women abstained from alcohol during pregnancy.

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Less obvious and seemingly milder foetal alcohol damage is sometimes called Foetal Alcohol Effects (FAE). This term has fallen out of use and has been largely been replaced by Alcohol-Related Neurodevelopmental Disoreder (ARND), Partial Foetal Alcohol Syndrome (pFAS) or Static Encephalopathy. These conditions can be equally as damaging to babies but are rarely diagnosed.

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Some experts estimate that about 1% of North Americans suffer from FASD – about 4 times as many people as those with AIDS/HIV. There are 3 to 5 times as many people with ARND than FAS.

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Since 1973, the medical profession has known that alcohol in pregnancy impedes foetal brain development, affecting intelligence, learning skills and behaviour.

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Persons with FAS have distinctive physical appearance and lower IQs, but have lower crime and addiction rates than those with ARND as they get earlier diagnosis and can be better protected by society and their parents.

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Individuals with ARND may look normal and may have seemingly normal intelligence, but their damaged brains can result in learning disabilities, impulsivity, lying, stealing, tantrums, violence and aggression, inability to predict consequences or learn from experience, lack of conscience, and being highly addictive.

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Most people with ARND look perfectly normal and are never diagnosed. Research indicates that a high percentage of homeless people, and at least 25% of juvenile and adult offenders suffer from undiagnosed FASD.

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Of FAE individuals between the ages of 12 and 51:

95% will have mental health problems;

            60% will have “disrupted school experience”;

60% will experience trouble with the law;

55% will be confined in prison, drug or alcohol treatment center or mental institution;

52% will exhibit inappropriate sexual behavior.

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Of FAE individuals between 21 and 51:

more than 50% of males and 70% of females will have alcohol and drug problems;

82% will not be able to live independently;

70% will have problems with employment.

Some researchers estimate that each individual with FASD costs society approximately $2 million in his or her lifetime, for health problems, special education, psychotherapy, and counselling, welfare, crime, and the criminal justice system.

During their lifetimes, the individuals with FASD now alive in Canada will cost the taxpayers about $600 billion, about the same as the current national debt. In the U.S., they will cost the taxpayers about $6 trillion.

Early diagnosis can help prevent secondary disabilities such as mental health problems, dropping out of school, trouble with the law and substance abuse. After diagnosis, parents often find that their ability to cope with the child’s behavior changes dramatically when they understand that the problems are most likely based on organic brain damage, rather than the child’s choice to be inattentive or uncooperative. Of course this is only after diagnosis.

Let the fetus do its job of becoming your baby.

No booze. No drugs. Being Real.

Fetuses Against FASD

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