For 1000’s of oldsters within the U.S. yearly, the most effective and worst days of their lives begins on the identical place and time: within the hospital, when their infants are born. As they share the enjoyment of bonding with their newborns, docs inform them they’ve simply examined optimistic for medication — however the checks are flawed.
Hospitals throughout the nation routinely drug take a look at folks coming in to present start, utilizing pee-in-a-cup checks which can be notoriously imprecise. Individuals who have eaten poppy-seed bagels or taken over-the-counter heartburn or chilly drugs can take a look at optimistic for meth or opiates. Because of this, many face little one protecting providers investigations, and a few even lose custody of their youngsters.
The Marshall Mission’s reporter Shoshana Walter, in collaboration with CBS Sunday Morning correspondent Erin Moriarty and producer Sari Aviv, investigated how hospitals nationwide are reporting mother and father to little one welfare providers over inaccurate drug take a look at outcomes. In lots of circumstances, the hospitals themselves gave sufferers drugs throughout labor, then reported them for testing optimistic for those self same substances.
Watch the CBS Sunday Morning investigation above and browse our investigative collection.
