Hospitals Gave Patients Meds During Childbirth, Then Reported Them For Positive Drug Tests
Hospitals Gave Patients Meds During Childbirth, Then Reported Them For Positive Drug Tests
Mothers were reported after they were given medications used routinely for pain or in epidurals, to reduce anxiety or to manage blood pressure during cesarean sections.
That's incredible. Another headline I never would have imagined on my own.
Way to go, hospital staff. You're doing great. /s
This is so fucked. Wow.
If you don't die due to our abortion laws, we're gonna steal your kid.
What on earth could ever make anyone think this is ok?
Salinas
Villanueva
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DS9 "Past Tense" is a prescient episode in a lot of ways, but there's one line that I think doesn't get enough attention: it's not that people don't care, but that all the problems they face seem too big to handle.
Having a baby swiped away based on a drug test for drugs the hospital gave you is horrible. Yet, it seems to rate rather low compared to a huge list of other problems we face, and I really don't know how to deal with that.
I am getting the feeling that being a women in America is kind of terrible.
About to be worse.
Here we go again more stories about hospitals and CPS services using faulty and/or cheap means of testing to "comply" with regulations at the expense of patient. Why am I not at all surprised. I used to do this testing and when the process is done correctly it works. Here's how it's supposed to be done. First off you get a urine from Mom on admissions BEFORE giving any medication. Then you get the meconium and urine from baby after birth. You screen all three and confirm any positive screen with a more stringent confirmation test. Then you compare the three results to get a full picture of any drug usage that may be going on. Mom's urine will tell you if she's using within the last 3-5 days depending on the drug with the exception of THC which can stick around longer. Meconium gives you a window of drug use that might have occurred from the second trimester and on. It's not great to test it on its own because it's suspectable to faulty specimen collection. (I can't tell you how many times I got a cup of baby shit instead of real meconium. Real meconium looks like plastic, has the consistency of a mallomar, and usually has a mucus plug attached.)Then you test the baby's first urine output to determine if they have active drug in their system now. Use all three results together to interpret the big picture. At NO point do you ever give providers the screen results before confirmation. Hospitals and legal entities should be sued into oblivion for prosecuting innocent people over bad procedure and screening results. This shit irritates me to no end.
We can also blame the DEA for putting massive amounts of pressure on hospitals and drs for NOT doing these tests, even if circumstances didn't allow, or wasnt a priority(emergency c sections for example)
So the hospital breaks the protocol you laid out for us otherwise the DEA can come in and audit the hospital and if they don't like what they find, like missing drug tests, they can take doctors liscences to practice and drag that hospital through the dirt. It's fucked up how much power they have and how detrimental they've become to healthcare.
My doctor is forced to drug test me because of a medication I take. The last time she did it she apologized and said the DEA was auditing them this month and she had no choice. Those drug tests are like $500 if you don't have insurance, and a lot of private insurances won't cover it. If they won't I have to sign a paper saying I'll pay for it. If I don't do this I don't get life giving medications for a neurological disorder I was born with.
DEA mandated drug tests are unethical and provide very little benefit... if any at all. It just makes every patient feel like a criminal. Let doctors use their best judgment. It's better than the alternative... which is this.
Oh I absolutely agree. Gabapentin being one of those "scheduled" and monitored drug about broke me in the lab. Like no one is purposely getting high off of that shit. The Sacklers ruined pain management for everyone and I hope they all burn in hell.
Please come back when you can afford to make a purchase. Your kids are starving. Carl's Jr. believes no child should go hungry. You are an unfit mother. Your children will be placed in the custody of Carl's Jr. Carl's Jr... "Fuck You, I'm Eating."
I'm so sick of this timeline. I can't believe this isn't an Onion article.
Me patiently waiting for hospital staff to stop acting like fucking cops
"I've decided having black eye is illegal. Now hold still as i punch you in the eye" -the people making up those same laws probably
Honestly, children should probably be raised by the state anyways. You just don't know who's anti-science or indoctrinated with misinformation anymore these days.
This is the dumbest fucking thing I've read on this site today
Maybe RFK can raise your child.
If you get to know someone who went through the foster system you'll get why this take is terrible
Bro, the state is anti-science
Please don't tell me you're serious.
Are you able to tie your own shoes in the morning or do you also have someone else do it in case you do it wrong?