Hospitals Are Still Reporting New Mothers for Neglect Based on Drug Tests Triggered by Poppy Seeds

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of New Jersey has filed complaints against hospitals for conducting nonconsensual, medically unnecessary and inadequately-performed drug tests or with testing perinatal patients on the basis of sex and pregnancy resulting in false-positive results and state investigations of alleged child neglect; the ACLU argues that such policies constitute illegal discrimination under state law, which reveals how medical personnel forsake their ethical responsibilities in service of the war on drugs when they treat new mothers as presumptively unfit based on nothing more than the results of fallible urine tests conducted without permission or medical justification.

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