Tag: Misuse

We Can’t Treat It If We Don’t Test For It

May 4, 2023

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by

GuidaBrown

in Diagnosis, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FAS/FASD), Neonates, Testing

The Federal Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA), is designed to “address the needs of infants born with and identified as being affected by substance abuse or withdrawal symptoms resulting from prenatal drug exposure, or a Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder.” The Act is an effort to, in part, address the health and substance use…