During pregnancy, everything you eat, drink, or take into your body affects you and your growing baby (fetus). Pregnant women often need to make changes
Month: September 2017
Child Abuse Can Impair Brain Wiring
For the first time, researchers have been able to see changes in the neural structures in specific areas of the brains of people who suffered
Violence, Trauma, and Substance Use
Background on the Connections I have come to believe that trauma is the problem, and substance use the solution . . . until the solution
Guilt, shame and redemption: coping with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
Annette Cutknife holding her 13-month-old son Daniel in November 1989 The past Annette Cutknife gave birth to her son Daniel on October 31, 1988. Right
28 days on the land: Is this the future of addictions treatment in Nunavut?
Kathleen Hogaluk, left, and her mother, Cecilia, at the addictions treatment program in Cambridge Bay. (Kate Kyle/CBC) Kathleen Hogaluk is nervous about what the next
No, Scientists Didn’t Say Drinking Alcohol While Pregnant Is Okay
There were quite a few headlines making the rounds last week that light drinking during pregnancy “might be okay”. This was apparently based on a recent study.