222: The Risk of Alcohol Consumption During Pregnancy with Jackie Franks
The Addicted Mind Podcast
Duane Osterlind, LMFT
4.8 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Drinking when pregnant is a cultural norm. In fact, one in seven pregnant people reports consuming alcohol during pregnancy (which is pretty high). A significant number of pregnant women haven’t been told by their physicians that it’s not safe to drink while pregnant, and some even tell them it’s safe. But no amount or type of alcohol is safe to consume during pregnancy.
Prevent fetal alcohol syndrome disorder (FASD) along with so many of the lifelong effects including substance use, poor mental health outcomes, and incarceration can be associated with alcohol during pregnancy.
On today's conversation, Duane and Jackie Franks talk about the importance of prevention and raising awareness about this issue. We have to create more awareness to help prevent a lot of future problems, conditions, and experiences with law enforcement or incarceration. And if we think upstream, the prevention of prenatal exposure to alcohol is the most important thing.
Jackie is the executive director of the Indiana Alliance on Prenatal Substance Exposure. They recently launched BRAIN, a first-of-its-kind, online FASD screening tool that assesses cognitive and behavioral features associated with FASD.
In this episode, you will hear:
- How FASD is diagnosed as ADHD
- How to know FASD is present
- Social determinants of health and prevention
- Statistics on alcohol consumption during pregnancy
- The link between FASD and addiction
- About the BRAIN screening tool
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Supporting Resources:
Indiana Alliance on Prenatal Substance Exposure
BRAIN screening tool
https://inalliancepse.org/brain-online/
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone, welcome to the next episode of the Addictive Mind podcast. |
| 0:11.0 | My name is Dwayne Austerlund. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm your host, and our guest today is Jackie Franks. |
| 0:18.0 | She is the executive director of the Indiana Alliance on prenatal substance exposure. |
| 0:25.6 | Jackie is originally an Illinois native, has a master's in public health, and almost a decade of experience in the field of health education, promotion, and community engagement. |
| 0:35.6 | Jackie became involved with the Indiana Alliance because she has always been passionate about seeing a need in her community and filling it. |
| 0:43.5 | By educating people and informing them, and you'll hear this several times mentioned in the podcast, that there is no safe amount of alcohol during pregnancy. |
| 0:52.5 | We can prevent FASD, which is fetal alcohol syndrome disorder, |
| 0:57.7 | and so many of the lifelong effects, including substance use, poor mental health outcomes, |
| 1:02.2 | and incarceration that can be associated with it. And Jackie's going to talk about their recent |
| 1:08.1 | launch with the San Diego University of Brain, the first of its kind |
| 1:13.1 | online FASD screening tool that assesses cognitive and behavioral features associated with |
| 1:19.4 | FASD. So we're going to be talking about the importance of prevention and raising awareness |
| 1:26.7 | about this issue. |
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