Newborn screening for exposure to marijuana is common, and is especially recommended for babies born to women considered to be "high risk" for drug use, such as those who do not come in for prenatal care visits, Hammett-Stabler said. At UNC Chapel Hill, 10 to 40 percent of babies born in the hospital receive the test each month, Seashore said.
They wouldn't have any legal right to do so here in Germany. (It can be done, though, if the newborns show any abnormalities which could be drug-related with consense of the parents or a court ruling.)
I read that. I still don't get it. It's seems like overkill to me.
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raprap
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Sun 17 Jun, 2012 10:24 am
I'm not just concerned about the results from newborn tests. If some commonly used commercial soaps lead to a positive uring test result here, how many of the positives in the general public are the result of these flawed tests procedures.
IOW is this just another excess of the flawed 'War on Drugs.'
I agree, but another flaw of drug test are that while most drugs leave the system very quickly, pot tends to stick around. They high does not. How many people are fired for being impaired when it is simply not the truth.
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Isabela
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Sun 15 Jul, 2012 02:26 pm
@raprap,
why they are doing tests in babies. they shouldnt do this to babies.
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