The Secretary must run a program on fetal alcohol spectrum disorders
What the document says“The Secretary shall establish or continue activities to support a comprehensive fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (referred to in this section as `FASD') education, prevention, identification, intervention, and services delivery program, which may include--”
New section 399H of the Public Health Service Act directs the Secretary to establish or continue a program covering education, prevention, identification, intervention and service delivery for fetal alcohol spectrum disorders. The list that follows names public awareness work, research, State and Tribal capacity building, and applied research on services.
What the document actually says“The Secretary shall establish or continue activities to support a comprehensive fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (referred to in this section as `FASD') education, prevention, identification, intervention, and services delivery program, which may include--”
The Secretary must run a program. It deals with harm from drinking while pregnant. The program teaches, finds the harm, and helps people.
FASD is short for fetal alcohol spectrum disorders. Those are lasting problems that can come from drinking during pregnancy. The law uses the short form all the way through.
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