Hospitals gave patients meds during childbirth, then reported them for illicit drug use
Hospitals across the country reported mothers to authorities after they tested positive for medications used routinely in millions of births.
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The 'hell' of my prescription drug withdrawal
The 63-year-old says the benzodiazepine drug she was prescribed for epilepsy in 1975 led to a decade of adverse effects including attempts to take her own life. This was followed by years of ...
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Hospitals Gave Patients Meds During Childbirth, Then Reported Them For Positive Drug Tests
A drug test had turned up traces of benzodiazepine — the very medication that staff had administered before wheeling her into surgery. For Victoria Villanueva, pregnant with her first child, the drug ...
Yahoo28 天
Hospitals gave patients meds during childbirth, then reported them for illicit drug use
A drug test had turned up traces of benzodiazepine — the very medication that staff had administered before wheeling her into surgery. For Victoria Villanueva, pregnant with her first child ...
Jezebel27 天
Hospitals Are Reporting Pregnant People to the Authorities…for Meds the Hospital Gave Them
The following day, while Salinas held her stillborn baby, a social worker told her she was being reported to welfare authorities because a drug test revealed traces of benzodiazepine. Consequently ...
KERA News28 天
Hospitals gave patients meds during childbirth, then reported them for positive drug tests
A drug test had turned up traces of benzodiazepine — the very medication that staff had administered before wheeling her into surgery. For Victoria Villanueva, pregnant with her first child ...
Reason26 天
Hospitals Are Giving Pregnant Women Drugs, Then Reporting Them to CPS When They Test Positive
"Hospital drug testing of pregnant women ... She had tested positive for benzodiazepine—the same drug she was given before her emergency C-section. Another woman was given morphine to ease ...
Mother Jones28 天
Hospitals Gave Women Medications During Childbirth—Then Reported Them for Using Illicit Drugs
A drug test had turned up traces of benzodiazepine—the very medication that staff had administered before wheeling her into surgery. For Victoria Villanueva, pregnant with her first child ...
BBC1 年
Belfast drug users warned over possible 'bad batch of benzos'
It is understood there were a number of overdoses during a 24-hour period last week Drug users in Belfast are being warned that prescription drugs with the street name "benzos" may be laced with ...