{"id":53616,"date":"2025-09-09T19:47:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T19:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/53616\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T19:47:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T19:47:13","slug":"ground-breaking-report-on-living-with-fasd-identifies-urgent-issues-this-is-a-silent-epidemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/53616\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Ground-breaking\u2019 report on living with FASD identifies urgent issues \u2013 \u2018This is a silent epidemic\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EXCLUSIVE\u00a0|\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Study into Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder in Ireland highlights some key areas of concern\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The report, titled \u2018Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) in Ireland: Wellbeing, Living Experience, and The Need for Change\u2019, will be officially launched at an event in RCSI at St Stephen's Green on September 9 at 7.00pm. Photo: PA\/Dominic Lipinski\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4a340cf2-db2c-4375-8fe1-844eba7df3db.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The report, titled \u2018Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) in Ireland: Wellbeing, Living Experience, and The Need for Change\u2019, will be officially launched at an event in RCSI at St Stephen&#8217;s Green on September 9 at 7.00pm. Photo: PA\/Dominic Lipinski<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Centre for Positive Health Sciences, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) and FASD Ireland have collaborated on vital research on Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) in Ireland, which has identified urgent issues requiring immediate governmental intervention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">FASD is a condition caused by prenatal alcohol exposure, associated with a range of lifelong physical, mental, educational, social, and behavioural difficulties. FASD is an umbrella term used to describe several conditions that can be caused by drinking alcohol during pregnancy. These are Foetal Alcohol Syndrome, Alcohol Related Neurological Disorder, Partial Foetal Alcohol Syndrome, and Neurodevelopmental Disorder with Prenatal Alcohol Exposure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE\u00a0|\u00a0 Study into Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder in Ireland highlights some key areas of concern The report, titled&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,18,19,17,20379],"class_list":{"0":"post-53616","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-molly-cantwell"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}