Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders and Drug Affected Babies

The Maine Office of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services and the Maine Office of Child and Family Services’ combined efforts with funding from the Maine Infant Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) grant to develop a full range of programs to prevent and serve those with an FASD as well as drug affected/exposed infants.

Program Goals

To reduce the number of alcohol and illicit drug-exposed pregnancies.
To increase awareness about the health benefits of medication assisted treatment to women using opiates during pregnancy and to increase the number of women who access treatment.
To increase the number of Maine women who receive Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT).
To increase community awareness about the long-term healthimpacts of alcohol use during pregnancy.

Safe Sleep/Medication Assisted Treatment Subcommittee Resources:

Safe Sleep Workgroup: Medication Assisted Treatment Subcommittee

Safe Sleep and Sudden Infant Death Resource List

What Does a Safe Sleep Environment Look Like?

Helping Every Baby Sleep Safer

Safe Sleep For Your Baby: Reduce the Risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

Substance Use and Breastfeeding

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders and Drug Affected Babies Program Fact Sheet

Toddler Suboxone Ingestion Prevention Materials

Packet Description

Suboxone Letter to Health Care Providers

Kids and Unintentional Medication Overdoses in the U.S.