Social Issue: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome p.427 The third most common cause of mental retardation in babies born in most of North America (Canada and the United States) is fetal alcohol syndrome. This illness is a result of alcohol and other harmful substances moving across the placenta. The crossing of the placenta results in the blood of the fetus being polluted by the alcohol. The placenta, unfortunately, is a selective membrane preventing only the mother’s blood from entering the blood of the fetus
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have FAS. FAS stands for Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. Fetal Alcolhol Syndrome is caused by mothers that consume alcohol during pregnacy. There is no specific amount of alcohol known to be safe during pregnancy so the best possible option is not to drink any alcoholic beverage during pregnancy. Three major factors that you should know and consider when thinking about FAS are who causes these problems, birth defects and how to care for a FAS baby. Many people probley think that young teenage girls are the
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Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) occurs when a pregnant mother drinks an excessive amount of alcohol. The alcohol travels through the mother’s blood to the placenta. Then from the placenta through the umbilical cord to the unborn fetus. FAS can range from mild to severe. The unborn fetus can have physical, mental, and behavioral problems. The symptoms will never go away. They will last a lifetime. FAS affects 40,000 births a year which is roughly 1% of the annual births. FAS impacts as many children
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Alcohol: A Matter of Balance There is a wide range of physical and mental birth defects that can occur from an exposure to alcohol before birth, therefore women should not drink during pregnancy. Some people may believe that moderate drinking during pregnancy is okay, but there are others who believe that even having one drink can be potentially harmful to an unborn child. About 1 out of every 12 pregnant women drinks alcohol during pregnancy. 1 out of every 30 pregnant
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Allanda Smith COM/156 Neil Conway 7/14/2013 Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) is a mental and physical defect that forms in the fetus in association with high levels of alcohol consumption during pregnancy. FAS is caused when a pregnant mother drinks alcohol, and it is passed the unborn child through the placenta
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How to quit drinking alcohol Meta Description: overcoming an addiction to alcohol is a long and bumpy road. If someone tries to stop from drinking, they feel it impossible. However, if a person is willing and ready to quit drinking, they can recover from the alcoholism. Many people who have alcohol dependence do dot decide to transform their drinking habits overnight. Recovering from alcoholism is a gradual process. The first stage of the process has a huge obstacle, denial. People with this problem
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To repeal the .08 Blood Alcohol Content laws and set more legitimate and rational BAC standards, we must first understand the current law stating that any person with a BAC of 0.08, or higher is undoubtedly, without exceptions and no defense to the contrary, a drunk driver. This assumption is a decided standard and completely arbitrary. Regardless that the sweeping majority of people who drink are not actually impaired with a BAC of 0.08 and they are reasonably capable of driving in a safe and
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Alcohol Abuse and How it Affects Everyone S. Adams Should society care about alcohol abuse? Many people believe that to consume alcohol is a personal choice and an expression of free will. Some of those people don’t consider how alcohol use affects anyone other than the drinker. By listening to alcohol advertising and watching actors in movies one would get the impression that alcohol gives people an increased social status; they become self-confident, sexually attractive, and fun to be around
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Age Restrictions on Alcohol Relative to Military Eligibility I expect you to protect our country. I am going to give you a gun and when ordered to I expect you to take another human life without question. I expect you to be willing to die and watch others around you die. However you will not be allowed to drink alcohol and if you do you may face military and criminal charges. This is what we tell our soliders that are under the age of twenty-one. While most of us agree that the legal drinking age
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Military Versus Civilian Alcohol Dependency Military personnel are more likely to be alcohol dependent than civilians, which is due to the high stress and pressures of the military culture, lifestyle, combat, and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Imagine what it feels like returning home after a 12 month deployment to the Middle East. What do you do when you feel there is nowhere to go? You go where you feel most comfortable--alcohol. There are many causes and factors for alcoholism
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