Stopping Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: Women Who Drink Need Treatment

Stopping Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: Women who drink need treatment

By Janet Golden, Special to the Post-Intelligencer

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Sunday, March 20, 2005

The severity of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, also known as FAS is relatively common in many births today. However, recently there have been many warnings just about everywhere alcohol is sold. In restaurants there is a common sticker on bathroom mirror stating that “according to the surgeon general, women who are pregnant, or may become so should abstain for consumption of alcoholic beverages. These precautions have come relatively recently, but why? After all, alcohol has been around for a long time, why hasn’t anyone discovered the effects before? Well, the effects have been discovered before but nobody paid attention to them. But the hype now may eventually lend a hand in decreasing the births of these humans who often have problems with learning, memory, attention span, communication, vision, and hearing.

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