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

Martina Navratilova reacts to shocking claim of US hospitals reporting new mothers for positive drug tests from medications administered during labor

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

Hospitals alert child welfare over drugs given during labor: Report

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,…

Hospitals are giving pregnant women drugs, then reporting them to CPS when they test positive

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…

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

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…

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

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…

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

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