Across the United States, hospitals are dispensing medications to patients in labor, only to report them to child welfare authorities when they or their newborns test positive for those very same substances on subsequent drug tests, an investigation by The Marshall Project and Reveal, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system, has found.

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Hospitals across the country reported mothers to authorities after they tested positive for medications used routinely in millions of births.

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Hospitals gave patients meds during childbirth, then reported them for illicit drug use

NEW YORK, Dec. 11 (Xinhua) -- Across the United States, hospitals are dispensing medications to patients in labor, only to report them to child welfare authorities when they or their newborns test positive for those very same substances on subsequent drug tests, an investigation by The Marshall Project and Reveal, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system, has found. Read full story

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U.S. hospitals give patients medicines during childbirth, then report them for illicit drug use: investigation

Martina Navratilova has expressed outrage over a shocking report detailing how hospitals across the United States are reporting new mothers to child welfare authorities due to positive drug tests trig

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According to a new investigation from The Marshall Project, hospitals are giving women drugs during labor and then reporting them to child welfare services when they later test positive for those same drugs. These cases are one of the more maddening side effects of an out-of-control drug war combined with strict mandatory reporting laws.  "Hospital drug testing of pregnant women, which began in the 1980s and spread rapidly during the opioid epid…

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A recent partnership with The Marshall Project, Reveal News, Mother Jones, and USA Today shed light on the horrific realities faced by many American mothers in recent years: receiving drugs from hospital workers during labor only to be reported to child welfare after testing positive for those same drugs. Unfortunately, many new and even grieving mothers were subjected to child welfare investigations because of the medication they received while…

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US Doctors Are Giving Women Drugs During Labor, Then Reporting Them for Drug Abuse

This article was published in partnership with The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system. Sign up for their newsletters, and follow them on  Instagram, TikTok, Reddit and Facebook. . Amairani Salinas was 32-weeks pregnant with her fourth child in 2023 when doctors at a Texas hospital discovered that her baby no longer had a heartbeat. As they prepped her for an emergency cesarean section, they …

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Hospitals gave women medications during childbirth—then reported them for using illicit drugs.

When women go to the hospital to give birth, most are given medicine to ease the pain of labor. However, an investigation found these drugs prescribed by doctors are the same ones alerting child welfare authorities to their hospital rooms.  The Marshall Project and Reveal News found morphine, fentanyl and other routine narcotics used during birth are putting some moms in custody disputes.  Once a mother and their newborn test positive for drugs,…

“In New York, a mother with no history of drug use lost custody of her young child and newborn for five months after positive testing of fentanyl given to her by the hospital in the epidural.” [in English]tags: use, insurers, hospitals, health, United States» original news (www.themarshallproject.org)

“En Nueva York, una madre sin antecedentes de consumo de drogas perdió la custodia de su hijo pequeño y su recién nacido durante cinco meses después de dar positivo en la prueba de fentanilo que el hospital le había administrado en la epidural”. [en inglés]etiquetas: usa, aseguradoras, hospitales, salud, estados unidos» noticia original (www.themarshallproject.org)

Los hospitales daban medicamentos a las pacientes durante el parto y luego las denunciaban por dar positivo en los test de drogas

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The hospitals gave medication to the patients during childbirth and then denounced them for being positive in the drug tests.

Reproductive justice advocates have long warned that the medical and family policing systems sometimes collude. This results in people who have abortions or miscarriages being investigated and punished by state authorities, like law enforcement or child welfare services. According to a new investigation by the Marshall Project, hospitals across the country are reporting pregnant people to said authorities… for testing positive for medications th…

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Hospitals Are Reporting Pregnant People to the Authorities...for Meds the Hospital Gave Them

Mothers were reported after they were given medications used routinely for pain or in epidurals, to reduce anxiety or to manage blood pressure during cesarean sections.

U.S. hospitals give patients medicines during childbirth, then report them for illicit drug use: A Marshall Project and Reveal Investigation

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