Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, or FASD for short, is the most common known cause of neuro-developmental disability and birth defects in the western world. Up to one in twenty people in the UK could have FASD. It feels like a silent pandemic.
FASD is a lifelong disability that affects the brain and body of people who were exposed to alcohol consumed before they were born. That consumption could have taken place at any point of the pregnancy, including before it was detected. With such high numbers (around 45 per cent in Britain) of pregnancies being unplanned, or ambivalent, it’s easy to see how this condition has been silently impacting individuals and society for decades, probably centuries.
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