Key Documents
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: When Science, Medicine, Public Policy, And Laws Collide; by Kenneth R. Warren and Brenda G. Hewitt; Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews Vol 15; 2009Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues: Our Children’s Future; by Steven G. Gilbert; NeuroToxicology, Vol 26, 2005Alcohol Use and Pregnancy - Consensus Clinical Guidelines; (JOGC) Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada; Vol 32 No 8, August 2010; Supplement 3Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues: Our Children’s Future; by Steven G. Gilbert; NeuroToxicology Vol 26; 2005Report From A Roundtable Meeting With Nongovernmental Organizations And Health Professionals On Harmful Use Of Alcohol; by World Health Organization; Geneva, 24 and 25 November 2008Global Strategy To Reduce The Harmful Use Of Alcohol; by World Health Organization 2010ATLAS on Substance Use (2010) - Resources For The Prevention And Treatment Of Substance Use Disorders; by World Health Organization; 2010NOTE: All parts of this report need to be downloaded separately
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder - Awareness Campaign Project; Alberta Centre for Child, Family and Community Research; 2009Alcohol Use and Pregnancy Consensus Clinical Guidelines (Canada); Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada, Volume 32, Number 8, August 2010Substance Exposed Infants: State Responses to the Problem; US Department of Health and Human Services, SAMHSA; 2009Working Document for Developing a Draft Global Strategy to Reduce Harmful Use of Alcohol; World Health Organization; 2009Reviewing Struggles for Social Justice - A Primer for Transformative Leaders Binational Civil Society Forum; Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke University and University of Cape Town; 2008Ethical Considerations Of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: Truths And Consequences; By Laura Niles Wilhelm; 2005Making Your Voice Count: A Primer on Health Policy and How to Influence It; Project Voice, Canada; 2006NOTE: The example used in this workshop is FASD. It is also Canada specific
National Thematic Workshop on FASD; Summary Report; Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse; 2005Towards A Common Language For Functioning, Disability and Health; International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF), World Health Organization (WHO), 2002Protection of Human Subjects - Belmont Report: Ethical Principles and Guidelines for the protection of Human Subjects of Research; Report of the National Commission for the Proterction of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research; 197910th Special Report to the U.S. Congress on Alcohol and Health, produced by NIH, NIAAA (2000). (Follow Download Instructions, 491 pages to be printed in sections). Best Practices: Treatment and Rehabilitation for Women with Substance Use Problems, Prepared by Janet C. Currie. Health Canada (2001). Situational Analysis: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome / Fetal Alcohol Effects and the Effects of Other Substance Use During Pregnancy, Prepared by Carole Legg, Gary Roberts, and Mollie Butler . Health Canada (2000). Health Canada FAS/FAE Initiative: Information and Feedback Sessions. National Synthesis Report (2000). Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Fetal Alcohol Effects, Presentation by Edward Riley. 
Understanding the Occurrence of Secondary Disabilities in Clients with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) and Fetal Alcohol effects (FAE): Final Report, by A. Streissguth et al. (1996). Can be obtained from the University of Washington Fetal Alcohol and Drug Unit, Cost $5.00, phone: (206) 543-7155; fax: (206) 685-2903. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: Diagnosis, Epidemiology, Prevention, and Treatment, by Institute of Medicine (1996). (This is an online book, 213 pages)The Effects of Prenatal Alcohol Exposure, by Cynthia Larkby and Nancy Day. Alcohol Health & Research World (1997). Effect of Prenatal Alcohol Exposure to Alcohol Across the Lifespan, by Paul D. Connor and Ann P. Streissguth. Funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.Defining Disability: A Complex Issue. Government of Canada (2003).Thoughts on the Treatment Needs of Adults and Adolescents Impaired by Fetal Alcohol Exposure, by Natalie Novick and Ann Streissguth. Treatment Today (1995). Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Pregnant Women Who Abuse Alcohol: An Overview of the Issue and the Federal Response, by Barbara Anderson and Emily Novic. Department of Health and Human Services, USA (1992). (This report is included to provide a comparison of what has and has not changed in the US with respect to FASD) 