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Should Hospitals Drug Test New Moms?

Should Hospitals Drug Test New Moms?



In an ongoing opioid epidemic, hospitals drug testing new mothers and their babies has an intuitive logic. But applied unequally, rife with false positives, and prone to disrupting those important early weeks, is it a best practice?


Guest: Shoshana Walter, investigative reporter for The Marshall Project



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Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme, Ethan Oberman, and Rob Gunther.


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