How Some Alabama Hospitals Quietly Drug Test New Mothers — Without Their Consent. As hundreds of Alabama women face child endangerment charges, hospitals are mostly mum on their testing policies ...

Also, these tests may identify previous drug use but fail to tell us that the patient was using drugs recently (the marijuana test can be positive over a month after use, for instance).

Parents of minors should ideally be fully informed about the nature of a drug test, ... They required and executed a background check, which included an on-site drug test, without my consent.

A group of Boston doctors is proposing to study an emergency treatment for brain-injured patients without obtaining the trauma victims’ consent, arguing that they often arrive at the hospital ...

In Alabama, a positive drug test can have dire repercussions for pregnant women and new mothers. Their newborns can be taken from them. They can lose custody of their other children.

In many cases, Alabama hospitals drug test mothers and babies without explicit consent and without warning about the potential consequences, ProPublica and AL.com have found. Photo courtesy Flickr ...