I have written a number of articles accompanied by videos about my life struggle living with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder over the last little while. This four part series looked at different aspects of my life with FASD as well as how society views those whom are incarcerated and suffer from FASD as well as my spiritual journey and how that ties in to my struggle day in day out.
CTV National News “In Focus” did a interview with me about my life living with and battling Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and my incarceration and how Canada’s prisons are filled with those who have committed terrible crimes. But they are also filled with the mentally ill: those suffering from the effects of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder. Now some doctors are suggesting jail is not the right place to help the mentally ill. Research shows that those abnormalities often land FASD sufferers here, in prison. The reason. Alcohol injures the brain so much that many with FASD can’t tell the difference between right and wrong. One of Canada’s leading researchers, Dr. Christine Loock, estimates that at least one in every four inmates in federal institutions are behind bars, not because of a conscious crime, but because of FASD.
