For 1000’s of fogeys 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, medical doctors inform them they’ve simply examined optimistic for medication — however the assessments are mistaken.
Hospitals throughout the nation routinely drug take a look at folks coming in to offer beginning, utilizing pee-in-a-cup assessments which might 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. In consequence, many face youngster protecting companies investigations, and a few even lose custody of their youngsters.
The Marshall Undertaking’s reporter Shoshana Walter, in collaboration with CBS Sunday Morning correspondent Erin Moriarty and producer Sari Aviv, investigated how hospitals nationwide are reporting dad and mom to youngster welfare companies over inaccurate drug take a look at outcomes. In lots of instances, 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 learn our investigative collection.
