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Susan Horton had been a stay-at-home mom for almost 20 years, and now—pregnant with her fifth child—she felt a hard-won confidence in herself as a mother.

Then she ate a salad from Costco.

Horton didn’t realize that she would be drug-tested before her child’s birth. Or that the poppy seeds in her salad could trigger a positive result on a urine drug screen, the quick test that hospitals often use to check pregnant patients for illicit drugs. Many common foods and medications—from antacids to blood pressure and cold medicines—can prompt erroneous results.

If Horton had been tested under different circumstances—for example, if she was a government employee and required to be tested as part of her job—she would have been entitled to a more advanced test and to a review from a specially trained doctor to confirm the initial result.

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[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago (3 children)

This is a long, long article, but it's 100% worth it. The entire thing is infuriating.

[–] ravhall@discuss.online 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Agreed.

It sucks for everyone involved too. The mothers, the doctors, the hospital, the caseworkers, all seem to be locked into a ridiculous position because of poor testing equipment, and overly protective laws.

[–] Cadeillac@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

100% worth it.

The entire thing is infuriating.

[–] infinite_ass@leminal.space 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] girlfreddy@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm getting worn out from all the crap to be infuriated about these days. It's fucking overwhelming the amount of dumb-as-fuck shit capitalists, right-wingnuts and generally lazy people do to others, just for funsies it seems.

[–] infinite_ass@leminal.space 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The internet has become a fury delivery system. The stories that infuriate us, they are designed for exactly that. Reality is something utterly apart from the stories.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Reality is something utterly apart from the stories.

Aren't these stories about reality? They're not made up are they, they actually happened.

[–] infinite_ass@leminal.space 1 points 1 month ago

There are a thousand ways to spin. So yes and no. Is a half-truth a truth?

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I read this as "furry delivery system", and it still made sense.