Austrailan National advisory body urges government and service providers to take action to prevent fetal alcohol spectrum disorder
11/06/2012 09:32
The National Indigenous Drug and Alcohol Committee (NIDAC) has today released its Position Paper: Addressing fetal alcohol spectrum disorder in Australia, and is calling on government and health and related services to implement several recommendations to combat this preventable condition and to support sufferers and their families.
The NIDAC Chair, Associate Professor Ted Wilkes explains that "Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) is not well known in Australia, that it is an umbrella term describing a range of adverse effects caused by prenatal exposure to alcohol which presents as a range of symptoms in children, youth and adults, who suffer impairments to their development, learning and behaviour.