Chemical Dependency: Alcoholism
Center for Contining Dental Education
Chemical Dependency: Alcoholism
Center for Contining Dental Education
The National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (NOFAS)
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Community Resource Center
March of Dimes
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Family Resource Institute
In closing.....
This year in Arizona:
85,274 babies will be born
4 of these babies will be HIV positive.
23 of these babies will be born with Muscular Dystrophy.
25 of these babies will be born with Spina Bifida.
75 of these babies will have Down Syndrome.
170 of these babies will have Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
852 babies will have Alcohol Related Neurodevelopmental Disorders.
The cost to taxpayers for treating Arizona residents with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and related disabilities is estimated to be $140 million each year.
As noted by the Institute of Medicine's 1996 Report to Congress on FAS: "These incidence figures are offered not as established facts but to emphasize the magnitude of a problem that has serious implications - for the individual and for society."
-taken from the FAS Community Resource Center newsletter, revised Fall, 2007
