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September is Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)
Awareness Month
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Raising awareness of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) is the mission of Arkansas None for Nine, a non-profit organization that actively inspires, empowers, and supports children, families, and individuals that live with FASD in Arkansas.
An affiliate of FASD United, the national voice on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders, Arkansas None for Nine recently partnered with the University of Arkansas at Little Rock/MidSOUTH to educate communities about FASD. The organization brought in a multitude of speakers with expertise in the field of FASD and those with lived experience to share their knowledge during the university’s state-wide substance misuse prevention two-day summit. Read more about this important initiative.
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A South Southwest PTTC Product
Women and Alcohol: Drinking to Cope, SSW Data Brief
While alcohol drinking rates and alcohol-related deaths have been on the rise for women over the past couple of decades, the COVID-19 pandemic created a perfect storm for increased alcohol availability and drinking to cope. The Women and Alcohol: Drinking to Cope in a Pandemic World data brief, provides context for why problem drinking is increasing in prevalence among women. View the additional resources shared during the Women and Alcohol Lunch and Learn.
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Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
This guide reviews tools for alcohol use and interventions for pregnant women and women of childbearing age to prevent FASD. It includes risk factors, drinking rates among pregnant women, providing universal, selective, and indicated prevention services, working with families and policy work.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Includes basic information on FASD, data, articles, polysubstance use during pregnancy, recommended interventions, questions, quizzes, and training opportunities.
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Share on your social media for FASD awareness month
Q: I’ve tried to stop drinking before, but I just couldn’t do it. Where can I get help?
A: If you cannot stop drinking, contact your doctor, local Alcoholics Anonymous, or local alcohol treatment center.
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has a treatment facility locator. This locator helps people find drug and alcohol treatment programs in their area.
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) has an Alcohol Treatment Navigator. The Navigator helps adults find alcohol treatment for themselves or an adult loved one.
Alcoholics Anonymous® is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism.
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Reducing the Incidence of FASD:
What Have We Learned?
By Iris Smith, Ph.D.
The first paper detailing the clinical features of prenatal alcohol exposure in the United States was published in 1973. Early studies of prenatal alcohol exposure focused on physical and neurological abnormalities associated with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS), a categorical diagnosis. Recent research has increased our understanding of the full spectrum of consequences resulting from prenatal exposure, now known as fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD). In the 50 years since FAS was first identified, the increased knowledge of the underlying mechanisms and potential risk factors associated with prenatal exposure to alcohol has helped us to better understand the potential effects of other commonly misused drugs including cocaine, methamphetamine, cannabis, and synthetic opioids.
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What's Happening Around the Region |
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Understanding Stress and Substance Use Among LGBTQ+ Adolescents |
Friday, September 22, 2023
9:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. MT / 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. CT / 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. ET
Addressing the impact of stress on LGBTQ+ youth and substance misuse requires comprehensive strategies that focus on both individual and systemic factors. This includes promoting LGBTQ+-inclusive environments, reducing stigma and discrimination, providing mental health support tailored to their specific needs, and ensuring accessible substance use prevention and treatment services that are sensitive to the LGBTQ+ community. Dr. Jeremy Goldbach, the facilitator for this workshop, is an expert in this area of research. Together with Dr. Goldbach, we will examine the research related to this topic and receive guidance that will help improve prevention practices and prevent use.
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Building the Resilience of Immigrant, Refugee, and Asylum-Seeking Individuals Through Prevention |
Thursday, October 12, 2023
9:00 - 10:30 a.m. / 10:00 – 11:30 a.m. CT / 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 ET
People who immigrate to the United States come from different cultures and sometimes languages, have different experiences, and have different reasons for immigrating. Some people who immigrate may have received a visa to live and work in the United States. Others may be fleeing violence, persecution, or economic disaster in their native country. Each individual has their own story and their own reality. Against this backdrop, substance misuse prevention professionals have a very difficult task: they must do their best to provide prevention resources, programs, and interventions for these diverse individuals and groups. This webinar will offer prevention professionals information that can be used when working with immigrant, refugee, and asylum-seeking individuals and groups.
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Momentum
Prevention Justice Recovery
The Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services is combining two of our most popular conferences, Justice & Recovery Conference and Prevention & Recovery Conference, into one can’t-miss event!
Join us at Momentum: Prevention, Justice, Recovery on December 5 -7, 2023. This three-day conference is dedicated to mental health, prevention, recovery, and criminal justice behavioral health. Engage with leaders, gain practical tools, and learn leading strategies in over 40 sessions.
Help us build the Continuum of Care, reduce suicide rates and substance misuse, and address childhood obesity at the largest conference of its kind in Oklahoma!
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New SAMHSA Resources
The Opioid-Overdose Reduction Continuum of Care Approach (ORCCA) includes evidence-based strategies for reducing opioid overdose deaths. The strategies include opioid overdose education and naloxone distribution, medication for treatment of opioid use disorder, and safer opioid prescribing and disposal.
Please help us disseminate these important resources though your contacts
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