Children born with fetal alcohol syndrome suffer lifelong physical and mental impairments.
To prevent and reduce the harm caused by alcohol consumption during pregnancy, Governor Arne H. Carlson created a task force, co-chaired by First Lady Susan Carlson and Hennepin County Juvenile Court Judge Joan Lancaster, to study this problem and recommend ways in which government, health care providers, educators and others can respond to this tragedy. The Preventable Tragedy of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, looks at how fetal alcohol syndrome affects individuals, their families and their communities, how much it costs and what can be done to prevent it. To obtain free software needed to view or download this document, link here to the Adobe Acrobat Reader site . If you have trouble with our PDF files, please see web help. Visually impaired users can download free software from Adobe to provide access to PDF files.