New mothers say they had to undergo devastating investigations after hospitals reported their false positive drug tests to child welfare agencies shortly after they gave birth. This report is ...

A view of the East Block at San Quentin. Thousands of drug tests given to California inmates gave false results last year. Prison advocates worry that parole decisions were tainted. (Robert Gauthier / ...

This article was published in partnership with The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system, Reveal and Mother Jones. Susan Horton had been a ...

In the child welfare system, the threshold at which a drug test is considered positive varies widely from one jurisdiction to ...

A new mother from Alabama is warning pregnant patients after she says eating an "everything bagel" for breakfast before giving birth to her second child upended her family last spring. It all stemmed ...

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A comprehensive literature review was conducted for all medications on the formulary of Bedlam Clinic, a free evening clinic for the medically indigent or working poor, offered by the University of ...

Thousands of inmates wrongly tested positive for opiate use inside California state prisons last year because of a laboratory mistake, and civil rights attorneys now worry many of them could be denied ...