Check out this article from the American Psychological Association and share with your two Senators and one Representative.
“Researchers have found that alcohol use increased sharply during the pandemic, and there is some evidence that those patterns were present among pregnant women as well, said Ira Chasnoff, MD, a pediatrician and fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) researcher at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago.” Also, “Clinicians should be aware that FASD often overlaps with mental health symptoms. These problems begin in early childhood and exist through adulthood, as described by Mary O’Connor, PhD, ABPP, founder of the UCLA Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Clinic.”
https://www.apa.org/monitor/2022/07/news-fetal-alcohol-syndrome
