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Imprisonment, premature death, lifelong disadvantage: how those brain-damaged by alcohol pre-birth are being forgotten.
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Imprisonment, premature death, lifelong disadvantage: how those brain-damaged by alcohol pre-birth are being forgotten.
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Nobody knows how many people in New Zealand have fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, because we’ve never counted. But experts believe, given our binge drinking culture, our stats will be among the highest in the world. And, for the most part, we are leaving them to fend for themselves with a condition they didn’t ask for, and which they will have for the rest of their lives.
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