Published in the journal BMJ Open, the WA research also found that one in three of young people in detention had foetal
alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD)-- the highest known
rate of FASD among any population involved in the justice system worldwide.
The magnitude of the problem caused by high risk consumption of
alcohol is often hidden by the lack of collection of useful data for example at the time of hospital admissions, when children are put into out of home care because of their neglect, when people are incarcerated because of alcohol related crime and when children are born with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) or Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) at some of the highest rates in the
alcohol is often hidden by the lack of collection of useful data for example at the time of hospital admissions, when children are put into out of home care because of their neglect, when people are incarcerated because of
alcohol related crime and when children are born with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) or Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) at some of the highest rates in the
alcohol related crime and when children are born with Fetal
Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) or Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) at some of the highest rates in the
Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) or Fetal
Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) at some of the highest rates in the
Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) at some of the highest
rates in the world.