“Unfortunately, many women continue to drink during pregnancy. Furthermore, many of the women who continue to drink during pregnancy are at highest risk for having children with fetal alcohol syndrome and related problems. Thus, finding potent new ways to reach populations at risk and to influence changes in their behavior remains a challenge for alcohol research.”

—Enoch Gordis, director of the NationalInstitute for Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism

“I am adopted and my mom died so no one will ever know when or how much or how often my mom drank. I just know I have to live with it,” Liz Kulp said in The Best I Can Be: Living with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome or Effects. The Best I Can Be, a book written by her adopted mother Jodee Kulp, details Liz’s struggle against the brain and metabolic damage she suffered as...