Fact Sheets

Effects Series

This series is designed to give women specific information about the health effects of various drugs, with a special focus on how drug use may affect pregnancy, birth and child development.

• Alcohol
• Amphetamines
• Cannabis
• Cocaine
• Hallucinogens 
• Tobacco

Women and Substance Use Information Series

This series provides information directed to women about specific issues related to their substance abuse, as well as how alcohol and drugs affect the fetus during pregnancy.

• Alcohol and Pregnancy: Preventing FASD
• Estimating the Rate of FASD and FAS in Canada
• Information for Partners of Pregnant Women
• Questions and Answers: Alcohol, Other Drugs, Smoking, and Pregnancy
• Preventing FASD and FAS: Working With Pregnant Women Who Use Substances
• Women and Substance Use

Additional Information

• Services for Women
• Alcohol and Other Drugs in Pregnancy
• Alcohol & Pregnancy
• What a Woman Should Know: Alcohol and Other Drugs