Alcohol-exposed babies: Why prevention is not as easy as ‘just don’t drink’

…No mother I have met would ever intentionally do something to harm their child.  But alcoholism and addiction are sinister diseases.  The desire or need to drink can overpower a mother-to-be’s healthier instincts.  Which is where the wide range of services a mother or family might need become as important as merely knowing not to drink.  Knowing not to drink, and having the support and care needed to not do it, are very different…

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