Each year in the U.S., thousands of children are born with life-long disabilities because they were exposed to alcohol before they were born. Between 2 and 5 percent of the U.S. population is diagnosed with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, or FASD. "That is a very large number of people," said Christie Petrenko, a research psychologist. "It's pretty comparable to the rates of autism, or maybe even a tad higher, and much higher than things like Down Syndrome." Petrenko, is a lead principal