This is the site for CCSA's FASD Information Service. This service aims to be a focal point for Canadian practitioners addressing FASD by:
- providing recent, accurate information on the important and complex issue of substance use and pregnancy through this Web section and through a toll-free telephone information and reference service;
- serving as a gateway to other credible Canadian sources of information.
Because alcohol is the intoxicant most used by Canadian women, and because it is one of the most damaging to the fetus, alcohol use and pregnancy will be a focus of this section; however, information on the effects of other substance use during pregnancy is also presented. 
Selected Readings
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
Encyclopedia on Early Childhood Development
Centre of Excellence for Early Childhood Development, 2009
Clearing the smoke on cannabis: maternal cannabis use during pregnancy
Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse, 2009
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) prevention : Canadian perspectives – multiple approaches to FASD prevention
Public Health Agency of Canada, 2008
Women’s lives and women’s health : a critical part of FASD prevention
Atlantic Gender and FASD Committee, 2007
Government response to the second report of the Standing Committee on Health : Even one is too many, a call for a comprehensive action plan on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
Presented to the House on January 17, 2007
Even one is too many : a call for a comprehensive action plan for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
Report of the Standing Committee on Health, 2006
Summary Report : National Thematic Workshop on FASD
Public Health Agency of Canada, 2006
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder : Canadian guidelines for diagnosis
Canadian Medical Association, 2005
Related Resources
Government Strategies
FACE Research Network and Roundtable
Motherisk
The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids)
Canadian Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, Incorporating Fetal Alcohol Research
Canadian Society of Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Canada Northwest FASD Research Network
Canadian Foundation on Fetal Alcohol Research
NeuroDevNet
A trans-Canada initiative dedicated to studying children’s brain development
Consensus statement on FASD across the lifespan
Institute of Health Economics, 2009
CMA policy : Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder [Update 2009]
Canadian Medical Association, 2009
Non-Canadian:
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Center for Excellence
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
U.S. National and State Resource Directory
National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Study Group
Research Society on Alcoholism